Dana Reeve Quotes

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

Get used to disappointment.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

You can't always get what you want.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming