Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory,...
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese...
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.
Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our sel...
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.