#appointment

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#because #disappointment #every #every time #focusing

Suspense is worse than disappointment. ↗

— Robert Burns

#suspense #than #worse

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ↗

— Confucius

#death #depend #determined #heaven #honors

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

#disappointment #love #soul #tragedies #love

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#birthdays #charts #christmas #dirt #easter

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#around #behind #corner #days #disappointments

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#breakup #called #cd #did #disappointment

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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