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Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
Related topics: Wisdom Psychology Philosophy
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous
It is much more painful to have lost
something you thought you had,
than never to have had it at all.
If feels as if our trust was dashed.
We are disappointed and we are angry;
but not quite sure at who to direct our anger.
Someone, perhaps "the system," perhaps God,
should have done better.
Most of all we are angry at ourselves -
even though we did our best -
and we are afraid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
Perhaps this person will never
be disappointed or disillusioned;
perhaps she won't suffer the way
people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when the person looks back -
and at some point everyone look back -
she will hear her heart, saying,
"What have you done with the miracles
that God planted in your days?
What have you done with the talents
God bestowed on you?"
- Paulo Coelho
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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