![Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/our-desires-always-disappoint-us-for-though-we-meet-with-something-that-gives-us.jpg)
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gratitude charity chains
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
gratitude giving give-me
Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.' C. S. Lewis
gratitude giving-up grateful
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful. Catullus
gratitude love-you college
"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'" Cecelia Ahern
gratitude giving-up hard-work
Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious. Beth Riesgraf
gratitude regret thinking
I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed. Antoine Lavoisier
gratitude spring flower
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream. Bill Vaughan
gratitude appreciation mountain
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. Bill Bryson
gratitude believe men
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind. Bertrand Russell
disappointment errors might
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting. B. F. Skinner
disappointment sacrifice reality
The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred. Billy Corgan
disappointment achievement way
I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone. Bill Cosby
disappointment frustration cry
She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
disappointment success-and-failure inherent
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success. Bette Davis
disappointment character people
My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first. Anton Corbijn
disappointment book shopping
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
disappointment doors track
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in? Carl Jung
disappointment mistake party
Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.
expectations people trying
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby. Bill Bruford
expectations speech
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. Bill Bradley
expectations plans candidates
I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again. Al Gore
expectations found true-faith
True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.
expectations mind taught
Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you. Catherine Ponder
expectations progress impossible
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. Alan Dundes
expectations outcomes determine
Expectations determine outcome, always! Deepak Chopra
expectations great-expectations kind
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty. David Nicholls
expectations clients different
All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different. Bruce Bennett