Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Get used to disappointment.

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.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

You can't be disappointed unless you try something to be disappointed over.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

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.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

All is well... That's my new philosophy.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.