“A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.”

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This reads as a claim that the hardest letdown for a person with strong values is not other people’s behavior, but their own inability to meet difficulty with steadiness. It points to self-judgment as the real sting behind setbacks. It lands in moments when someone expected themselves to stay calm, generous, or resilient, and feels the gap between that ideal and their reaction.

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