"Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were."

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Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

Brad Warner

#Disappointment Quotes #Reality Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
“Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.”
“It's very much an exploration of the human condition and how different people react and respond to their lives. And what they present to the world, in terms of who they are as characters and what is going on behind the mask, in terms of what demons their holding... and how that interacts.”
“I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.”
“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.”
“If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.”
“The Internet is by the people, for the people.”

Source : "Kim Dotcom: 'I'm not a pirate, I'm an innovator'" by Duncan Greive, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2014.
“I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.”

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