Quotations on anticipation

The charm of a woodland road lies
not only in its beauty but in
anticipation. Around each bend may
be a discovery, an adventure.

Dale Rex Coman

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Elizabeth Gaskell

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

W. E. Johns

Life needs mystery or else everything else flattens into a routine
so familiar you wonder if you will ever get out of the rut. We need
the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Dave Kindred

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

One's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction
is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is
afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything
the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Norman Cousins

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality;
our desires being often but precursors of the things
which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

Know how to keep anticipation
alive: always strive to feed it,
by letting the much promise more,
and the one achievement
be the announcement only of
a greater. Put not all your
reserves into the first throw;
the great trick is to dole out
strength, and to dole out mind,
in such a fashion as to bring
forward increasingly the fulfillment
of what was expected of you.

Baltasar Gracián

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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

We love to expect, and when expectation is either
disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.
What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Seneca

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard

No mind is much employed upon the present:
recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

Events are only the external form of what happens. Form carries with it
no particular content. Because I once enjoyed myself during a Super Bowl,
I have concluded that watching Super Bowls causes enjoyment. Or I went
to several cocktail parties and did not enjoy myself and have concluded
that cocktail parties cause boredom. Anticipation is always the exercise of
such illogical connections. Otherwise I would feel no urge to picture
the form of future events, realizing that content, not form, is the
determiner of happiness, and content is always within me.

Hugh Prather

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