Quotes about Anticipation

Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.

Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come.

I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

had thought she and her sisters would celebrate it together at the Whitmans'. Perhaps they might have even heard from their uncle by then. There wouldn't have been gifts to exchange, but they would have

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.

Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.