“If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.” IfsMenLittlesTwoWholeFeelingsLightYouthFairsSightLaysDisappointmentSpreadChiefsDawnLife TimeRosy Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.” ThinkingWayKindLittlesSometimesDreamSeemsMightGoalVisionDisappointmentResistanceRejectionScareDreams You Have Author:Gregory Peck
“We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.” MayLittlesSoulJoyDesireDisappointmentBitternessMultitudes Author:John Lancaster Spalding