“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
“To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”
“In fact, in what’s known as “rosy prospection,” anticipation of happiness is sometimes greater than the happiness actually experienced.”
“There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named—the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.”
“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.”
“Because money permits a constant stream of luxuries and indulgences, it can take away their savor, and by permitting instant gratification, money shortcuts the happiness of anticipation. Scrimping, saving, imagining, planning, hoping--these stages enlarge the happiness we feel.”