Contempt Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

“How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.”

— Marcel Proust

“the unbearable persistence of hope”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of others, we’ll…

— Byron Forrest Yawn

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend…

— Justin Menkes

“The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

— Gretel Ehrlich

“I start each day promising myself I’ll do better, I tell myself I can stop the destructive eating pattern. But something inside of me…

— K.L. Slater

“Then came a long period of bodily privation; of daily hunger after food; and though he tried to persuade himself he could bear want…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.”

— Thomas S. Monson

“Having the lure of even a slightly more hopeful future for oneself, other people, and society is as important for motivation as the push…

— Howard John Clinebell

“The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes…

— Mohammed Naseehu Ali

“Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.”

— Helen Keller