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“Never once in the history of receiving good news has someone ever replied, “It’s okay. I understand.” Those words are reserved for when someone has let you down. I should know.”

Book:Making Friends With Monsters

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“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.”

Life Wonder Disappointment Intense Worthwhile Perfectionism Sonder

Book:The Midnight Library

Source: The Midnight Library

“Ahhh, John Clark—totally dope. I’m simmering with curiosity about their romance. I guess that’s what people without romance do . . . wonder. It all started with him. Now, I die a little more every day. Only a fellow shipwrecked lover could possibly understand.”

Loneliness Curiosity Disappointment Crush First Love Outsider

Book:Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost.”

Winning Lost Football Depression Disappointment

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.”

Disappointment Misperception

Book:The Imitation of Christ

Source: The Imitation of Christ

“we should give no illusions about ourselves to not disappoint people in the future.”

Future Disappointment Illusions

Author:Iren Oginski

“I hate writing this because my dad is going to read it, but having a parent who is always a little bit disappointed in you isn't ever going to be healthy. The question is whether it is an unhealthy weight that I have to struggle with or an unhealthy fuel that can actually propel me.”

Inspirational Growing Up Disappointment Parents Irony

Book:A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“Be determined to overcome any disappointments through diligence .”

Motivational Determination Disappointment Diligence Overcome

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Find a way to laugh about it and the sting will miraculously diffuse; joke about it and the pain will be no more. Just learn to take it easy and have life.”

Laughter Stress Disappointment Life Wisdom

Author:Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The compulsion to do something for fun or pleasure is a bondage. Even wealth becomes a bondage when you think that having it means you must use it to seek pleasure and gratification.”

Wisdom Money Psychology Human Nature Behavior Reflection Self Awareness Personal Growth Mindset Habits

Author:Aaron Ananth

“Life without a meaning that’s infinitely bigger than the sum total of my life is certain to calibrate a trajectory to a destination that’s not worth getting to.”

God Christian Jesus Failure Infinite Disappointment Goals Meaning Destination Trajectory

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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