The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disap...pointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of what contrives to create critical moments in parenting stems from a fundamental misunderstanding as to what the child is c...apable of at any given age. If a parent misjudges a child's limitations as well as his own abilities, the potential exists for unreasonable expectations, frustration, disappointment and an unrealistic belief that what the child really needs is to be punished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the b...eginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for th...e love our children feel for us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustrati...on. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The be...auty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a parad...ise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to w...hat may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably ...grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, one's hopes or one's fears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »