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anticipation

«Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.»
«An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.»
«Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.»
«A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.»
«Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.»
«If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Worry | Keywords: anticipation, pleasures, troubles
«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 be»
«No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments»
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: anticipation
«Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.»