Quotes for the Journey: Anticipation    If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Elbert Hubbard

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.       -Samuel Johnson     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     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     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     Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.  What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.      -Seneca      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

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

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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.      -Norman Cousins

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.      -W. E. Johns

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.      -Elizabeth Gaskell

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.      -Lucy Maud Montgomery

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