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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

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• Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

  Dirk Benedict

  Fear, Cities, Hollywood

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• Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Learning

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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• He who matures early lives in anticipation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Early Life

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.161, Verso

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wish, Next, States

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.487

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  Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

  Anna Neagle

  Opportunity, Thinking, Waiting

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• 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

  Lying, Adventure, Discovery

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• The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Earth, Opaque

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• Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Cheating, Important, Excitement

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Talking, Years, Cricket

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• The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.

  Daniel Dennett

  Past, Expectations, Mind

  "Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series)". Book by Daniel Dennett, June 27, 1996.

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• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Mindfulness, Today

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and resources that you are not yet fully aware of, and they will enhance your life as you become more aware of them. There are many more strengths and inner resources that you can gain and build up from now on.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gains, Infinite, Resources

  Zelig Pliskin (2006). “Building your self-image: and the self-image of others”

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• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Simple, Waiting, Hardship

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014

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• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  Umberto Eco

  Sports, Squash, Flying

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• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

  Dodie Smith

  Mean, Safe, Exciting

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stills

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• Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Revenge, Lying

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

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• If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Imagination, World

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed by the sun, fanned by the breeze, charmed by the manifold delights of nature.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spring, Looks, Delight

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• Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

  Russell Green

  Worry, Events, Morbid

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• Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fear, Power, Fearless

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

  Miranda Lambert

  Music, Long, Littles

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