“Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.”
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Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”
A Vindication of Providence; or, A True Estimate of Human Life (1728).
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