"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"

-- Mary Douglas

#Disappointment Quotes #Hands Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.”
“As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.”

Source : "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you!”
“To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.”
“I was very rebellious.”
“I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.”
“Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.”

Source : Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”

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