Completion Quote by Samuel Johnson

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

— Anonymous

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

— Sophocles

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.

— Gamaliel Bailey

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

— Walter Alston

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

— Charles Stanley

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

— Tarthang Tulku

“But it is fortunate,'' thought she, ''that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But…

— Jane Austen

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Maintaining a state of joyful expectancy and positive anticipation about our desires significantly influences their manifestation into reality.”

— Russ Kyle