#anticipation

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#anticipation #behaviour #our #response #therefore

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate. ↗

— Joan Jett

#anymore #everything #immediate #knows #nobody

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#conscience #men #most #opinions #others

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#love #separation #weariness #love

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chapter #true-love #love

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! ↗

— Anna Neagle

#big #big things #growing #horizons #instead

When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#impressions #patterns #equality

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now. ↗

— Alexander Shulgin

#anxiety #drugs #existance #shulgin #life

Though the task of opening those doors is in no means difficult, Andria finds herself unable to move her shaking legs, as her ankles tremble in her crystal heels, and her fingers, holding gently onto the length of her gorgeous gown, terribly shake in step with the beat of her precious, precious heart. ↗

— Hannah Nikka Bryan

#apprehension #door #fantasy #fear #fiction

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#anticipation #be different #channels #considerable #details