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

   
  

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

  
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

   
  

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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
    

   

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