disappointment

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.

How can any of us even know what to believe anymore? Our culture__ full of so much phoniness and deception. Companies advertise products to make us believe that we will be more beautiful, more healthy, or live longer by consuming their products. We are seduced by lovers who feed their porn addictions when we__e asleep. We__e taught to believe that if we work hard and take risks, that we can achieve our dreams, yet youth unemployment is the highest it__ been in decades. Fairytales tell us that true love exists, but half of all marriages end in divorce.

As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before__overing, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn__ care about so that I couldn__ lose anything I really loved ever again.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, __ am good enough, I will try again.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.