Expectations Quote by Henry Home, Lord Kames

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such…

— Paul Bloom

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

— John Dryden

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the…

— Robert South

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

— Paul Bloom

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

— Samuel Johnson

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy…

— John Lancaster Spalding

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

— Sophocles

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…

— Robert South

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson