Anxiety Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We usually get what we anticipate.

— Claude M. Bristol

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

— Richelle Mead

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

— Peter Elbow

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

— Brigham Young

We wait always for something that does not come.

— Ernest Hemingway

Things may come to those who wait, but often it is the thing discarded by those who seek it first.

— Nghi Lam

We obtain things when we no longer want them.

— Cesare Pavese

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

— Iyanla Vanzant

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

— Ann Brashares