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“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”

Realizing Loss Secret Disappointment Holes Vacuums Disappointment In Friends

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”

“New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.”

Heart Loss Perfect New York Broken Towns Disappointment

Book:You Can Get There From here

Source: You Can Get There From here

“We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.”

Mind Stories Loss Hero Disappointment Betrayal Love Story Our Love Heroines Heroes And Heroines

Author:Maeve Binchy

“...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.”

World Heart Home School Mother Loss Boys Influence Son Kissing Economics Trade Lips Disappointment Limitation Manhood Controversy Bewildered Mother And Son

Author:Judith Ellen Foster

“Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.”

“The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.”

Turns Evil Loss Economic Sorrow Blessing Disease Crosses Gold Finals Disappointment Symbols Heartache Frustration Alchemist Dregs Slag Life Disappointment

Author:Catherine Marshall

“Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.”

People Trying Has Beens Jobs Faces Felt Loss Findings Shots Surprise Disappointment Divorce Portraits Disillusioned Job Loss

Author:Tina Barney

“My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I've tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can't control in our lives, whether it's disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change.”

Remember President Loss Boys Principles Our Lives Teaching Sorrow Disappointment Farms Officers Governors Exes Never Change Clinging Accommodate Submarines

Author:Jimmy Carter

“God is okay. He's got big shoulders. He's okay with our - with our questioning and our - you know, I think the bigger the question, the bigger the answer, you know? It may be sickness, it may be loss, it may be disappointment, but sometimes you feel like heaven's silent, that "God, how-how can this be love?" But actually, if you go back to the Word, you know, it just underpins everything.”

Thinking Sometimes Loss Okay Silent Disappointment Sickness Questioning

Author:Darlene Zschech

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”

Real Pain Happiness Suffering Loss Figures Blessing Shapes Patience Disappointment Suicidal Having Patience No Patience Life Patience Great Patience Patience And Persistence I Have No Patience

Author:Joseph Addison

“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”

Desire Loss Bears Mark Disappointment Wounds Graves Permanent Gratification

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”

Feels Firsts Loss Sad Disappointment Life Disappointment

Book:Nature of Jade

Source: Nature of Jade