Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can kill their hosts. Disappointment is a deadly companion. We didn't yet know how many of us would end up in its grip, because we were all still striving, and some of us thought we were thriving. Margaret Drabble
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...
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Fred Rogers
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over...
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Thomas Moore
Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?
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Kaui Hart Hemmings
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Henry David Thoreau
More Quotes By Margaret Drabble
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be...
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of...
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
