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Not Disappointing Myself
“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
— Glennon Doyle
it is often when we have our own high expectations of how something should play out that we are the most disappointed with what we receive.
Erez Safar • Light of the Infinite: The Genesis of Light
reating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success.
Bill Watterson • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
What if, buried in your ambition, is a desire for something more, someone else? Might that explain the persistent disappointment?