Jane Austen on disappointment
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
Jane AustenJane Austen Each found her greatest safety in silence.
Jane AustenJane Austen I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane AustenJane Austen Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
Jane AustenJane Austen He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
Jane AustenJane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane AustenJane Austen Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane AustenJane Austen One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Jane AustenJane Austen Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane AustenJane Austen The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Jane AustenJane Austen There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane AustenJane Austen Success supposes endeavour.
Jane AustenJane Austen She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Jane AustenJane Austen You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
Jane AustenJane Austen I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
Jane AustenJane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Jane AustenJane Austen
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on disappointment
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
Christian BaleChristian Bale Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
George ForemanGeorge Foreman Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.
A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.
Queen LatifahQueen Latifah
