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• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Congratulations, Blessing, Accomplishment

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• Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Heart, Soul, Perpetual

  "Song: "Perpetual Anticipation" ("A Little Night Music")". 1990.

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• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Worry, Classic

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• Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Half, Looking Forward, Pleasure

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.83, Xist Publishing

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• The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

  Billy Graham

  Faces, Looks, Meetings

  "Billy Graham Holding Last Event in the U.S." by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2005.

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• No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

  Samuel Johnson

  Optimism, Mind, Pessimism

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.476

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• If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature, Remember, Trouble

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.

  Earl Nightingale

  Christmas, Morning, Giving

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• As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

  Gloria Swanson

  Life, Father, Daddy

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

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• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Past, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ­romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Writing

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Madness

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• Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Trouble

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• I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stars, Heart, Understanding

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• Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Waiting, Anxiety, Feelings

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

  Felicity Kendal

  Special, Littles, Used

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• Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Mean, Work Out

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Looks

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• Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Opinion, Conscience

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• Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Reality, Names, Battle

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• The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Car, Racing

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

  Janet Napolitano

  Thinking, Needs, Threat

  Secretary Napolitano's Remarks to the National Press Club, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2010.

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• I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Things In Life, Comforting

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• I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

  Dian Fossey

  Animal, Equality, People

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