#disappoint

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#children #disappointment #discouragement #feel #love

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. ↗

— Masaru Emoto

#beautiful #bloom #disappointed #discover #here

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#disappointment #night #time #change

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. 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

#disappointment #joy #suffering #change

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments. ↗

— Andrew Levkoff

#life-lesson #moderation #setting-goals #life

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#disappointing #feeling #going #had #i

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. ↗

— Scott Turow

#love #melancholy #love

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life ↗

— James De Mille

#disappointment #horror #misfortune #sadness #life

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#been #disappointed #done #i #justice