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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
This has been my mantra: Brace for the unfavorable; anticipate the favorable; and accept whatever comes.
2.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
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If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.
Erik Erikson
4.
If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.
Rickson Gracie
5.
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan
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In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.
Jerome Bruner
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Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.
Etty Hillesum
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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth
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Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
Priscilla Shirer
14.
Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
Sharon Gannon
15.
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting
Andy Warhol
17.
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
Henry Rollins
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Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
Matthieu Ricard
19.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
20.
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Betty Ford
21.
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
Robin Hobb
22.
I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.
Nicholas Sparks
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I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
Billy Graham
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
27.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Anais Nin
28.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Plutarch
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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
30.
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
James A. Garfield
31.
You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
Amy Harmon
32.
Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .
Toni Cade Bambara
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Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
Daniel Kahneman
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
Carl Sagan
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
John Eldredge
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Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.
Daniel Kahneman
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Earl Nightingale
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Joseph Joubert
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I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.
Henry David Thoreau
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
John Ruskin
43.
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
Ilka Chase
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Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
Chip Kidd
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento
46.
I know men and women can banish worry,
fear and various kinds of illnesses,
and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts.
I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times.
I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.
Dale Carnegie
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The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
Jerry Uelsmann