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Disappointment is the sadness that comes from hopes and expectations not being met

• Disappointment: Sadness or displeasure caused by the non-fulfilment of one’s hopes or expectations.  Oxford Dictionary
• Disappointment: Something or someone that is not what you were hoping it would be.  Dictionary.com
• Disappointment: Failing to meet expectations.  Merriam Webster
• Discouragement,  Sadness,  Expectation,  Hope,  Despair,  Anticipation,  Let go of attachment to results

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Disappointment is an inevitable part of living a full life …

• May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life. Heber J. Grant
• Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity. Daniel Willey
• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. Laurence Olivier

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… of following your own path

• There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path. Anton Chekhov
• When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. Paulo Coelho
• Follow your own path

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Your greatness and success can be measured by how you handle disappointment along the way

• The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Richard M. Nixon
• The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki
• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. Thomas S. Monson
• One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher
• Greatness,  Success

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Disappointment is inevitable while discouragement is a choice

• Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make. Dr. Charles Stanley
• Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. Joyce Meyer
• Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments. Dr. Charles Stanley

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Disappointments can be a blessing if you see them in the right light

• Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. William Gaines
• 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. Joseph Addison
• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
• Perception,  Interpretation,  Attitude

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Disappointment can strengthen and energise you

• Trials, temptations, disappointments – all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. James Buckham
• Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. Eliza Tabor Stephenson
• Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger. David Rudisha
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Disappointment can bring clarity

• The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. Conan O’Brien
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Disappointments can contain valuable lessons

• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore, nil desperandum. March forward hero! Sivananda Saraswati
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Disappointments can teach you where you get stuck

• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are. Pema Chodron

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Disappointment can serve the human soul

• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. Thomas Moore
• The soul

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The fear of disappointment stops us from being free

• Why, then, do we hold onto the old so earnestly? What is the block to letting go in the moment? That block is fear: lack of faith in ourselves and in life. If I give up a bad relationship, maybe no one better will come along. If I look for a new job, maybe I’ll get a worse one. If I let go of my suspicion, maybe I’ll be hurt and disappointed by people. It’s fear that masquerades as the need to control, and fear that deprives us of the chance to be free. Joan Borysenko
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Measure life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities

• Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. E. B. Du Bois
• Every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds. Robin S. Sharma
• Possibility

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Excessive hope leads to disappointment

• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Samuel Johnson
• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer
• While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. Bryant H. McGill
• How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Excessive expectation leads to disappointment

• A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Douglas Adams
• Those who live on expectations are sure to be disappointed. Joachim Murat
• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson
• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer
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Some argue that to reduce disappointment, you should let go of your expectations

• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope
• For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much — if he lives and uses that in hand day by day — shall be full to running over. Edgar Cayce
• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Samuel Johnson
• I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. Patricia McCormick
• No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment. Jude Morgan
• I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. Julia Glass
• Intend the future but let go of attachment to results

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Pessimists, after all, are rarely disappointed

• A pessimist is never disappointed. Jack Cleary
• Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play. Thomas Hardy
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Others argue that having no expectations is both impossible and undesirable

• 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
• I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed. M. Montgomery

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Maybe the answer lies in having clear intentions but letting go of attachment to the result

• The moment you relinquish your attachment to the result, combining one-pointed intention with detachment at the same time, you will have that which you desire. Deepak Chopra
• Become detached from the outcome of your actions and paradoxically your level of performance will climb. Wayne Dyer
• You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it. Lester Levinson
• When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. Jessica Lange
• So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action—just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. Eckhart Tolle
• Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions. Joan Borysenko
• Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme. Bhagavad Gita
• Intend the future but let go of attachment to results,  Desire

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Desire almost always leads to disappointment for its fulfilment never brings lasting satisfaction

• …there’s nothing inherently wrong with the desires of the Wanting Mind—it’s just that we are doomed to disappointment when we think they’ll bring any kind of lasting fulfilment. Brent Kessel
• Desire is the source of our most noble aspirations and our deepest sorrows. The pleasure and the pain go together; indeed, they emanate from the same region in our hearts. We cannot live without the yearning, and yet the yearning sets us up for disappointment–sometimes deep and devastating disappointment. John Eldredge
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. Elbert Hubbard
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Pleasure leads to disappointment for it always promises more than it delivers

• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential – for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possibilities. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. Soren Kierkegaard
• The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. Samuel Johnson
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Fixed plans often lead to disappointment

• Plans are invitation to disappointment. Derek Landy
• You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself. Abigail Biddinger
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Trusting others can lead to disappointment but it’s better than the misery of perpetual distrust

• There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. John Wooden
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Excessive ambition can lead to disappointment

• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. Benjamin Franklin
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Striving for perfection is bound to end in disappointment for it is impossible to attain

• A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection. Donald Kennedy
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Change and progress often bring disappointment for they happen slowly

• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. George Orwell
• Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice. B.K.S. Lyengar
• Progress,  Change

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Not living your life fully will lead to the greatest disappointment of all: regret

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
• Being fully alive,  Embrace life

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The regret of never having tried is far more painful than the disappointment trying and failing

• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. Beverly Sills
• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn
• Regret

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Not managing your reaction to disappointment leads to stress

• Stress is the body and mind’s response to any pressure that disrupts its normal balance. It occurs when our perceptions of events don’t meet our expectations and we don’t manage our reaction to the disappointment. As a response, stress expresses itself as resistance, tension, strain or frustration, that throws off our physiological and psychological equilibrium, keeping us out-of-sync. Doc Childre and Howard Martin
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Repressed disappointment can take its toll on your health …

• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Cyril Connolly
• Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others. Stephen Covey
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… and can lead to depression

• All of us get sad from time to time. Usually this is a response to specific life events. We may be disappointed in a relationship or lose a significant person in our lives. Being sad is a normal reaction to life events. But when we are depressed the sadness deepens and continues for a prolonged time. We tend to lose interest in our daily lives. Robert M. Oliva
• Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. Joyce Meyer
• Depression

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After disappointment, ask yourself what you can learn form it

• Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. “What did this failure teach me?” is the question you will need to ask. Chetan Bhagat
• 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. Michael J. Fox
• Learning,  Life as a university

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After disappointment, let hope rekindle your spirit …

• Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment. Evan Esar
• Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. Ruckett
• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• But we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us. Romans 5:5
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… but without becoming overly attached to that hope

• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Samuel Johnson
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After disappointment, remind yourself this is by no means the end of the story

• When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure. Pema Chodron

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After disappointment, make a decision to move on and plough ahead…

• 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
• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. Les Brown
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… and use your burning desire to help you get back up

• Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. Marsha Sinetar
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After disappointment, focus on getting some fun back in your life for it is a great antidote

• Life is meant to be fun, and fun is a sure antidote to disappointment. A million things have brought me joy, or laughter, or most important, the experience of beauty.   Plant a potato, and discover a treasure chest of new ones when you dig them.  Walk down a northern path in the springtime, and try to count the dogwood blossoms and the trilliums.  Read Shakespeare.  Discover love.  Then look up at the stars and reach for them.  Richard Cutler
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Let go of past disappointments

• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. Jack Kornfield
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Marriage can be a huge disappointment if you go into it with the wrong attitude

• Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. Albert Einstein
• People who have found everything disappointing are surprised and pained when marriage proves no exception. Most of the complaints about matrimony arise not because it is worse than the rest of life, but because it is not incomparably better. John Levy
• When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
• Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. Scott Turow
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Let go of your expectations of others

• Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I’d like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can’t disappoint me. Mary Haskell
• If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

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Stop seeking from others what only you can give yourself

• You’ll have less heartaches and disappointments if you stop seeking from others the things ONLY God and you can give yourself! Yvonne Pierre

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Basing your happiness on the validation of others will lead to disappointment

• If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you’re always going to be disappointed. Madonna
• Approval seeking,  Happiness

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When people disappoint you, be loving and patient with them

• Patience is loving others even when they disappoint you and you don’t understand them. It’s knowing how to let go and accept others as they are and forgive them for things they have done.  Donna Levine
• When people are not loyal or loving toward us, we enliven our potential for unconditional love. A yes frees us from the suffering caused by our need to hurt or reject those who have disappointed us. David Richo
• Love,  Patience

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Realise that being true to yourself will sometimes mean disappointing another

• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
• Be who you are

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Disappointment is an inevitable part of any spiritual path …

• The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. Paulo Coelho
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… and being grateful even for your disappointments is a great spiritual practice

• Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. Mike Aquilina
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In the pursuit of virtue, every disappointment is an advancement

• There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue. Charles Caleb Colton
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Awareness is never disappointing if you put effort into it

• Awareness is a choice, and sometimes it takes effort. But it’s never disappointing if we truly put some effort into it.  The rewards for our effort already surround us all the time, but they’re awards that we miss constantly until we make the decision to open our eyes and our hearts to the beauty that’s always everywhere.  Tom Walsh
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Spiritual enlightenment is the ego’s ultimate disappointment

• Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment. Chögyam Trungpa
• The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme death, the death of self, the death of me and mine, the death of the watcher. It is the ultimate and final disappointment. Chogyam Trungpa
• Enlightenment,  Transcending the ego

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Prevent disappointing yourself and others by becoming reliable

• Reliability is a most wonderful virtue. We should cultivate it. We should be consistent about the things we do, so that others will know they can count on us. But more important, we want to be able to count on ourselves. The greatest pain is to have to disappoint one’s self. Sterling W. Sill

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Thoughts on being disappointed by others

• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. Jodi Picoult
• There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you’ve carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. Sarah Dessen
• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. Haruki Murakami
• I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. 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 of my own optimism. Elizabeth Gilbert
• If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. Toba Beta
• When people change, I’m disappointed they’re not who I remember them being. And when people don’t change, I’m disappointed they still are who they were. All people do is disappoint, and I do mean all people. Jarod Kintz
• Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. C. Bennett
• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I give and give, even when I get nothing back – and that sets me up for disappointment. Angie Stone
• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Carl Jung

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• A pier is a disappointed bridge. Julian Barnes
• Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. Jim Fiebig
• Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed. C. Bennett
• Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed. Benjamin Franklin
• Cynicism: Disappointed idealism.    Harry Kemelman
• Falsies: A helpful aid to any girl in acquiring a disappointed husband.
• Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
• He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. G. Wodehouse
• I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain
• I think in most cases the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment. Marc Maron
• Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin
• Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words. Bill Watterson
• Longed for him. Got him. Shit. Margaret Atwood
• Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
• Niagara Falls: The bride’s second great disappointment.
• Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
• Parents – especially step-parents  – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children; they don’t fulfil the promise of their early years.   Anthony Powell
• Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. Ambrose Bierce
• Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. Bernard M. Baruch
• When I was told Santa Clause was my dad, I wasn’t sure whether to be disappointed or excited that he goes around in a slay around the world sharing presents.
• When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. Bernard Baily
• Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. Ambrose Bierce

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