Anticipation Quote by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“Maintaining a state of joyful expectancy and positive anticipation about our desires significantly influences their manifestation into reality.”

— Russ Kyle

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

— Eckhart Tolle

Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop…

— Dallas Willard

Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of…

— Oliver Burkeman

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with…

— Andre Maurois

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

— Anonymous

“The psychologists have a term — emotional contagion. When other people are acting a certain way around you, you tend to absorb some of…

— Sebastian Marshall

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

— Paulo Coelho

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

— Bruce Lee

“My research had revealed that challenge and novelty are key elements to happiness. The brain is stimulated by surprise, and successfully dealing with an…

— Gretchen Rubin

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

— Sebastian Horsley