Quotes About Anticipation

Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.

.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

Happiness lies in hope.

My level of excitement is above cricket proportions

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

Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.