We usually get what we anticipate.
Anticipation
Bristol, Claude M.
1891-1951 American Author of The Magic of Believing
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Anticipation
Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Anticipation
Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Anticipation
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
A man’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.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Seneca
4 BC 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher