“Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is o…”— Carlos Wallace, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Bitter, Acceptance
“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”— Jen Pollock Michel,, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Wanting, Losing
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”— Tonya Hurley, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, hopes
“I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.”— Criss Jami, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Surprises
“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Youth, Dating
“Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Suffering, Pride, Faith
“Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Baggage, Moving On
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Pottery
“How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.”— Camilla Gibb, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Dreams, Expectations
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”— Joel Osteen, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Moving On, surviving
“Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Defeat, Despair, God
“The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.”— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, opportunities, silver lining
“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Friends Hurt Me
“You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, 'I am good enough, I will try again.'”— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, strength, Good Enough
“I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Potential, Love
“When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Belief, Hope
“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”— Vann Chow, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Love, Dating
“Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong? Is there a new path God wants me to explore?”— Billy Graham, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, God, hopes, Dreams
“Disappointments are part of life; we can’t always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate what is significant from what is merely annoying. Only in heaven will we be free of all disappointments and failures. A friend of mine says, 'Oh well, a hundred years from now it won’t make any diffe…”— Billy Graham, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Heaven, Failure
“Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.”— Graham Greene, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Hope, Faith