When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
“A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one. — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
My fear is of the message we put out to millions of voters is that if change is not initiated through the… — James Cleverly Copy Share Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Looking for perfection in a person brings too much expectations. When your expectations are not met, too many disappointments come. Learn to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
In football, if you have a big break after a disappointment you can stew on things, and that hurts you. — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
“He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool's, pumped from the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Disappointments that we experience give substance and integrity to life. They give us that direction to yearn and seek self-fulfillment and worth.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment. — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives that we stumble and fall. We disappoint and we fail. Most of the time we find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
