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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. -- Michael Landon
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow. -- Minnie Pearl
I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life. -- Joyce Maynard
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. -- Euripides
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I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way. -- Dave Goldberg
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view. -- Fridtjof Nansen
I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that. -- Shania Twain
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. -- Wendell Pierce
You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!' -- Maya Rudolph
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I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it. -- Terry Gross
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment. -- Pico Iyer
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled. -- El DeBarge
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. -- Cate Blanchett
There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life. -- Diana Quick
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. -- Mel Gibson
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. -- James E. Faust
Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments. -- Joe Abercrombie
Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity. -- Daniel Willey
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words. -- Bill Watterson
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. -- William Matthews
You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all. -- Rodney Dangerfield
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them. -- Kay Arthur
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints. -- Bruce Barton
In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes. -- George S. Patton
Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater. -- Jan Hellriegel
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. -- Dean Koontz
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. -- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered. -- Thomas A. Edison
One of the surest ways to live a life that's full of disappointments, is to expect people to be perfect. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on -- Zig Ziglar
What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy? -- Laura Story
There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on. -- Christian Finnegan
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. -- Sigmund Freud
May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life. -- Heber J. Grant
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.... -- Samuel Johnson
Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love. -- Elizabeth George
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate. -- Baron de Montesquieu
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved. -- Dallas Willard
It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before. -- Jane Green

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