“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”

“Physics is always a gamble; it is a game of exploration. That’s the fun of it. We never know for sure what will happen. Sometimes, we theorists can anticipate, but nature is the final judge.”

“It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them.”

“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.”

“We seldom call any body lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some Service.”

“Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.”

“Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.”

“There is little difference between expecting misfortune and undergoing it; except that grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened; but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
Parvolum differt, patiaris adversa an exspectes; nisi quod tamen est dolendi modus, non est timendi. Doleas enim quantum scias accidisse, timeas quantum possit accidere.

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”