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• Anticipate: To expect; look forward to; be sure of.  Dictionary.com
• Anticipate: To imagine or expect that something will happen.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Anticipate: To expect or look ahead to (something) with pleasure: to look forward to (something).  Merriam Webster
• Excitement,  Expectation,  The future,  Planning,  Preparation,  Hope,  Optimism,  Trust

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Anticipation can be a great source of pleasure and enjoyment …

• Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it. Ethiopian Proverb
• Expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet that it enchants my sense. William Shakespeare
• Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. L.M. Montgomery
• 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
• Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment. Elizabeth Gaskell
• The pleasure isn’t in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. John Green
• ..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. Jane Austen
• …anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Gaynor Arnold
• Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. David Hume
• Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. A. Milne
• Pleasure,  Enjoyment

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… and can add excitement and spice to life

• 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
• Life needs mystery or else everything else flattens into a routine so familiar you wonder if you will ever get out of the rut. We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. Dave Kindred
• The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting. Andy Warhol
• Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. Ana Monnar
• Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. … The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. E. Stanley Jones
• Excitement

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Anticipation can help abundance flow into your life

• The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It’s not testing you. It’s benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation. Abraham-Hicks
• Abundance

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Anticipation of the future is far more constructive than preoccupation with the past

• To stand in your now, looking forward with deliberate intent and anticipation of what is to come, is infinitely more satisfying than to stand in your now, looking back, retracing your steps as to how you got where you are. Abraham-Hicks
• The past

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Learning to anticipate consequences can be a valuable form of wisdom

• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins
• The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. Publilius Syrus
• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. John Maynard Keynes
• I try to skate where the puck will be. Wayne Douglas Gretzky
• Wisdom

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Let your anticipation turn possibility into reality

• We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. Samuel Smiles
• Possibility,  Reality

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Anticipation is an important part of travel and vacation

• Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection. Edward Streeter
• Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.  Regina Nadelson
• Schedule short, frequent vacations; studies show that the anticipation leading up to the time off is one of the best parts about taking a vacation. Marelisa Fabrega
• Travel,  Vacations

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Too much anticipation can stop you from living fully in the present

• A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore, a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith
• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Seneca
• Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other: it is our own. Charles Colton
• No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. Samuel Johnson
• Stop looking past the present moment in anticipation of the next.
• The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. William Hazlitt
• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be.  Eckhart Tolle
• Men spend their lives in anticipation, 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…. 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
• We anticipate what’s to come, then ignore what’s actually here. Stephan Rechtschaffen
• The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. Mark Rutherford
• Live in the present,  Preoccupation with the future

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Anticipating trouble and pain before it arrives can be a great waste of energy and life

• If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Elbert Hubbard
• Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen. Russell Green
• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.  Seneca
• Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? Robin Hobb
• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle
• Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
• Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. Deepak Chopra
• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. Honore de Balzac
• Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen. Russell Green
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha
• Pain,  Worry, Anxiety,  Energy management

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Anticipation can lead to disappointment and suffering

• There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation. Seneca
• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn’t safe. Dodie Smith
• Disappointment,  Suffering

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Too much anticipation of a good thing can lessen the enjoyment and pleasure when it actually arrives

• In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness and worldly pleasures by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing. John Tillotson
• One’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

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Fulfilment of our desires rarely lives up to the anticipation

• Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. Marcel Proust
• It’s so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen — that’s the most exalting. Anouk Aimee
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. Elbert Hubbard
• When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts…it’s like soaring through a sunset.  I think it almost pays for the thud. Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 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
• The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality. Mark Twain
• Desire,  Expectation

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We usually get what we anticipate …

• We usually get what we anticipate. Claude M. Bristol
• The Law of Attraction

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… or do we ?

• What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli

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