#disappointment

I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairytale in the world. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#annabelle-fancher #dandelions #disappointment #friends #friendship

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

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It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players. ↗

— Tom Moody

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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ↗

— William S. Paley

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Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

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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

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ↗

— Euripedes

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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise. ↗

— Gary Numan

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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#build #disappointments #i #myself #really

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. ↗

— Nick Hornby

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