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

W. E. Johns

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Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

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

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation
of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next
wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see
something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Samuel Johnson

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow,
and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a
brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.

Mark Rutherford

People spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at
some period when they have time.  But the present time has one advantage
over every other--it is our own. . . . We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we
would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long,
we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation
of a response.  They are therefore fear-based.

Deepak Chopra

We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Albert Camus

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Honoré de Balzac

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way
they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

Josh Billings