#disappointments

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

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The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

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I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. ↗

— Loretta Young

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The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

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We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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