Disappointment

Disappointment: 'When expectations fail to be met, producing anger, frustration, sadness and discouragement.'  (Webster)

Welcome to life; disappointment guaranteed!

“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” (Eliza Tabor)

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” (Sir Boyle Roche)

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” (Robert Kiyosaki)

 “Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?” (Tryon Edwards)

 “Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” (Les Brown)

Disappointment doesn't cancel your assignment - or God's presence. Do what He sent you to do.

"Disappointment–His appointment,"
Change one letter, then I see
That the thwarting of my purpose
Is God’s better choice for me.
His appointment must be blessing,
Though it may come in disguise,
For the end from the beginning
Open to His wisdom lies.

"Disappointment — His appointment,"
Whose? The Lord’s, Who loves me best
Understands and knows me fully,
Who my faith and love would test:
For, like loving earthly parent,
He rejoices when He knows
That His child accepts, unquestioned,
All that from His wisdom flows.

"Disappointment — His appointment,"
"No good thing will He withhold,"
From denials oft we gather
Treasures of His love untold.
Well He knows each broken purpose
Leads to fuller, deeper trust,
And the end of all His dealings
Proves our God is wise and just.

“Anytime I am looking to somebody else as my source, I'm coming from scarcity. I am no longer trusting God…for my harvest. It's reasonable for me to have expectations based on what somebody I trust has committed to. And it's natural for me to feel disappointed when that somebody doesn't come through. But when I feel more than disappointment, when I also feel anger, it's because I deviated from my truth. It's because I compromised my truth to get what somebody else promised. Because when I'm really following my truth, I will be at peace with the consequences — whatever they are. I can accept somebody else's truth, but I must live my own truth. And sometimes that means walking away from a relationship.” (Jan Denise)

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. (Eric Hoffer)

“Lose/Win* people bury a lot of feelings (*I lose – you win; appeasers/door mats). And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.” (Steven R. Covey)

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.” (William Arthur Ward)

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” (Jim Rohn)

“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.”

(Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)

“Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.” (Samuel Johnson)

“How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. (Catharine Esther Beecher )

“The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment” (Publilius Syrus)

“Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.” (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

“The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.” (Samuel Johnson)

These slight disappointments are sent to prepare
For what may hereafter befall;
For seasons of real disappointment and care,
Which commonly happen to all.                     (Jane Taylor)

“Rigid beliefs make disappointments seem unbearable, whereas realistic beliefs help us to accept disappointment and go on from there.” (Eileen Kennedy-Moore)

“The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.” (Fred G. Gosman)

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated (atoned for) by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.” (Samuel Johnson)

“Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.” (Viramma Racine)

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.” (Beverly Sills)

“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” (Henry Ward Beecher)

Bible Verses on Overcoming Disappointment:

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. (Psalm 46:1-3)

“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...” (Psalm 121)

“Love suffers long and is kind… Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:4a, 7-8a)

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”  (Philippians 4:6-7)

“Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”  (Hebrews 4:14-16)