The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.
Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.
If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.
If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
