“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.”
“In fact, in what’s known as “rosy prospection,” anticipation of happiness is sometimes greater than the happiness actually experienced.”
“After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.”
“True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.”
“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
“It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.”