#point

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#disks #hard #me #more #most

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#aspirations #bitterness #disappointments #hope #life

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

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#away #cling #depended #everything #gradually

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of! ↗

— Mark Webber

#am #anyway #constantly #disappointed #forward

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#body #different #everybody #figure #out

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#books #coming #disappointing #find #grass

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#enchanting #full #great #may #out

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. ↗

— Cornel West

#betrayal #disappointment #focus #just #kind

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it. ↗

— Tom Welling

#although #deal #devoted #fulfilling #germany