Albert Einstein Quotes about Disappointment

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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press

For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

Albert Einstein

Disappointment, Home, Sea

"Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 72, 1979.