“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best -” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating and Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
- A.A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh
I love this quote. It is so perceptive and true. Why is it that the anticipation of something good, especially that moment right before you get it, is sometimes more enjoyable than the actual having of that thing?