It's easier to live disappointed than it is to feel disappointed. It feels more vulnerable to dip in and out of disappointment than to just set up a camp there. You sacrifice joy, but you suffer less pain.

Disappointments may be like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if there are enough of them, they can leave us seriously wounded.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment