#sap

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#disappointment #disappointment

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#changes #disappear #disappearance #literature #literature-quotes

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai. ↗

— Giorgio Faletti

#coraggio #love #partire #travel #viaggio

Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist, the first was in the bedroom, by the foot of the bed, we marked it off with red tape on the carpet, and it was just large enough to stand in, it was a good place to disappear, we knew it was there but we never looked at it, it worked so well that we decided to create a Nothing Place in the living room, it seemed necessary, because there are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear, we made this zone slightly larger so that one of us could lie down in it, it was a rule that you never would look at that rectangle of space, it didn't exist, and when you were in it, neither did you, for a while that was enough, but only for a while. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#marriage

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #truth #marriage

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be. ↗

— Rachel Abbott

#disappointment #marriage #wedding #marriage

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#sea-swept #men

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle. ↗

— Robert Browning

#incapacity #power #will #men

Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang. Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan. Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang, aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan. ↗

— Sapardi Djoko Damono

#inspirational #lyrical #philosophy #poetry #poetry-quotes

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#disappointment #inspiration #inspirational