208 Quotes About Anticipation

Waiting for an experience elicits more happiness than waiting for a material good... When we spend money on experiences, those purchases are also more associated with our identity, connection and social behavior.

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

Faith is the anticipation of possibilities, even when faced with impossibilities.

The future belongs to those who anticipate it.

I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

I wish to go down under the waters—the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe wait for...

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Before or After? Fern:Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing.Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always betterthan a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that oneslide.