[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism:… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely… — William James Copy Share Image
When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There's a ceiling when it comes to genetics. I'm a huge believer in the mind. I feel like anticipation is a key… — Will Compton Copy Share Image
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
