“In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.” IfsOrderWinningEnergyLosesEffortPayDisciplineDisappointmentFulfillmentDiscontent Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.” PeopleMadeUseEnergySuccessfulActivityDisappointmentSuccessful PeopleResponding Book:Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition
“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.” IfsWayWritingMeanSelfTurnsEnergySourceSorrowJudgmentEmpathyGuiltDisappointmentWitPityInnocenceIronyEmpoweringOriginalityAggressionWoundedMisunderstoodDeliberateSelf PityOthernessSillinessOddnessPerverseness Author:Ted Solotaroff
“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.” WorldHumansArtLiteratureBeliefEnergyHuman BeingsResultsNumbersFantasyDirectDisappointmentInadequateMishaps Author:Christopher Hampton
“The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.” FirstsChildrenStillsEnergyParentHurtExistenceAttentionWonderStruggleMereDisappointmentAccomplishmentApprovalSiblingMe AloneRivalryAlone TimeSibling Rivalry Author:Adele Faber