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“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'”

States Bigs Shame Fellows Disappointment Continents Conferences Nigeria Head Of State African Continent

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.”

Heart Ends Moving Life Is Shame Disappointment Moving Forward Outcomes

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.”

Feels I Can Terrible Dating Shame Guilt Disappointment Punishment Nightmare Persecution Reproach

Author:John Mayer

“I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.”

People Understanding Hurt Issues Policy Emotional Shame Longing Disappointment Stem Discourse Abandonment Public Discourse

Author:Susie Orbach

“Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.”

Ifs Should Long Sometimes Deals Skins Stress Shame Majority Starting Disappointment Willingness Thick Thick Skin Starting A Business Long Road

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.”

Past Courage Plans Tomorrow Shame Guilt Starting Disappointment Wounds Yesterday Suits Sinking

Book:The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country

Source: The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country

“If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.”

Ifs Feelings Shame Guilt Disappointment Cures Depressing

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.”

Mind Success Loss Shame Disappointment Tongue Topics Disappoint Supplies Disappointment Love Disappointment In Friends

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc