#appointment

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#surprises #life

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

#relationships #young-love #love

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#love #love

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loves-ones #mistakes #self-reliance #trust #love

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties. ↗

— Mary Karr

#hope #youth #youth

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#disappointment #expectation #hope #much #sort

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. ↗

— George Carlin

#disillusionment #idealism #disappointment

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. ↗

— Toba Beta

#bitterness #disappointment #take-root #vengeance #disappointment

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#expectations #ghostgirl #disappointment

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. ↗

— Eliza Tabor Stephenson

#disappointment