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Disappointment

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Disappointment

"Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love."

Disappointment Loyalty Betrayal
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Disappointment

"There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment."

Errors Disappointment Elderly
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
Disappointment

"The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons."

Disappointment Lessons Faults
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Disappointment

"The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence."

Life Grief Disappointment
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Disappointment

"It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp."

Grief Drawing Disappointment
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Thomas Frank Author
Disappointment

"It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power."

Two Party Disappointment
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Tom Johnson Artist
Disappointment

"My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life."

Dream Regret Disappointment
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Disappointment

"My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires."

Desire Disappointment Climate
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Rich Robinson Musician
Disappointment

"It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up."

Music Regret Disappointment
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Disappointment

"He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former."

Years Office Disappointment
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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Disappointment

"The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice."

People Lonely Disappointment
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Stuart Stevens Political Consultant
Disappointment

"Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists."

Believe Food Disappointment
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Disappointment

"Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything."

Voice Sound Disappointment
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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
Disappointment

"Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have."

Thinking Disappointment Karma
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