Anticipation Quote by Henry Home, Lord Kames

“Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is…

— Shannon L. Alder

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.

— Gamaliel Bailey

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

— William Hazlitt

As humans we are never happy or satisfied with what we have and we always want more or different.

— Kashmira Shah

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

— Samuel Johnson

expectation isn't the same as desire

— Margaret Atwood

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

We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.

— Jurgen Klinsmann

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

— Elbert Hubbard

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 problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

— Brad Warner

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames