{"quotes":[{"text":"It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["activities","anticipation","enjoyment","expectation","fun","future","hope","tolerance"],"id":5106,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair.","author":"Steven L. Peck","tags":["anticipation","despair","hope","longing","loss","love","solitude"],"id":7626,"author_id":"Steven+L.+Peck"},{"text":"Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["anticipation","attitude","hope","life","life","optimism","outlook","perspective","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":16904,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ability","alarcrity","anticipation","awake","aware","awareness","control","dawn","early","effort","fastness","in-charge","lateness","michael-bassey-johnson","preparation","situation","soul","speaking","versatile","versatility"],"id":23429,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.","author":"Eliezer Yudkowsky","tags":["anticipation","rationality","reality","thinking"],"id":38964,"author_id":"Eliezer+Yudkowsky"},{"text":"Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.","author":"Honoré de Balzac","tags":["anticipation","misery","misfortune","worry","worrying"],"id":40487,"author_id":"Honor%C3%A9+de+Balzac"},{"text":"It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.","author":"Serena Grey","tags":["anticipation","excitement","falling","falling-in-love","love","unrequited-love"],"id":44987,"author_id":"Serena+Grey"},{"text":"If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","tags":["afternoon","anticipation","friend","happy","visit"],"id":50898,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry"},{"text":"Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.","author":"Ana Monnar","tags":["anticipation","life","quote"],"id":59914,"author_id":"Ana+Monnar"},{"text":"It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["aging","anticipation","curiosity","reading"],"id":74002,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}