Calamity Quote by Tom Robbins

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too…

— Tom Robbins

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

— Walter Alston

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed…

— George Eliot

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

“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order…

— Tom Robbins

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism.…

— Anonymous

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so…

— Thomas Hardy

“Find joy in the extinction of desires.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these…

— Laura Schroff

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

— Zig Ziglar

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

— Samuel Johnson