"If pain must come up, may it come up apace. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best fashion possible. If he has to brand a selection, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him." ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Saturday Downwards and Wept
"If I die, I will await for yous, practise you lot empathise? No thing how long. I will scout from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then nosotros'll accept and then much to talk near when I encounter you again… (Bones)" ― Jeaniene Frost
"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right fourth dimension to act, for the right principles and in the right way." ― Fulton J. Sheen
"I've learned that waiting is the well-nigh difficult bit, and I desire to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when y'all're non by my side." ― Paulo Coelho, Xi Minutes
"I take always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always idea I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I idea I would have. In my head, I was always ane footstep abroad. In high school, I was biding my fourth dimension until I could get the college version of myself, the ane my listen could come across so clearly. In college, the post-college "adult" person was always looming in front end of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. So the married person, and so the person I'd become when nosotros accept kids. For xx years, literally, I have waited to become the thin version of myself, because that'southward when life will really brainstorm. And through all that waiting, here I am. My life is passing, day by day, and I am waiting for it to starting time. I am waiting for that fourth dimension, that person, that effect when my life will finally begin. I honey movies almost "The Big Moment" – the game or the operation or the wedding solar day or the record deal, the stories that split time with that key upshot, and everything is reframed, before it and later on it, considering it has changed everything. I have always wanted this moving picture-worthy event, something that will change everything and take hold of me out of this waiting game into the whirlwind in front of me. I weep and cry at these movies, because I am still waiting for my own big moment. I had visions of life every bit an gamble, a thing to be celebrated and experienced, but all I was doing was going to work and coming home, and that wasn't what information technology looked like in the movies. John Lennon in one case said, "Life is what happens when yous're busy making other plans." For me, life is what was happening while I was decorated waiting for my big moment. I was ready for it and believed that the residuum of my life would fade into the groundwork, and that my big moment would carry me through life like a lifeboat. The Big Moment, unfortunately, is an urban myth. Some people have them, in a sense, when they win the Heisman or go the adjacent American Idol. But fifty-fifty that football actor or that vocalist is living a life made upward of more than than that one moment. Life is a drove of a meg, billion moments, tiny fiddling moments and choices, like a handful of luminous, glowing pearl. It takes and then much time, and then much work, and those beads and moments are so pocket-sized, and then much less fabulous and dramatic than the movies. But this is what I'thou finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible fashion. That matter I'thou waiting for, that adventure, that motion-score-worthy feel unfolding gracefully. This is information technology. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets – this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of utilise volition ever experience." ― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Boggling Nature of Everyday Life
"There could accept been no 2 hearts and so open up, no tastes so like, no feelings so in unison" ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
"When I was piddling and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly and then I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read equally fast as I could! When my friends were curt I pretended that I was curt too and if my friend was pitiful I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only matter that I've ever received in render is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad nigh myself just because I allow them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella tin can get fuck herself, I'g not waiting for everyone, anymore! I'1000 going to run as fast as I can, fly as high equally I tin can, I am going to soar and if you want you tin can come up with me! But I'm non waiting for you anymore." ― C. JoyBell C.
"...as long as zip happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened." ― Marguerite Duras, Blue Optics, Black Hair
"Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting." ― Carolyn McCulley
"Then I thought, boy, isn't that merely typical? Y'all wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, yous feel sad." ― Sharon Creech, Admittedly Normal Chaos
"For a long time, she held a special place in my middle. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a repose corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was certain I'd never meet her again." ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, Westward of the Lord's day
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." ― Voltaire
"Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we expect until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let'south go." ― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
"After you discover out all the things that tin go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more than nearly waiting." ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"I want to reach out and take hold of his paw and hold it to me, correct over my middle, right where information technology aches the almost. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over." ― Ally Condie, Matched
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting." ― Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration non on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your ain garden, the children growing in your own home, this way of living has the potential to open up upwardly the heavens, to yield a glittering handful of diamonds where a 2nd ago at that place was coal. This mode of living and noticing and edifice and crafting can fissure through the movie sets and soundtracks that keep us waiting for our ain life stories to begin, and set u.s. gratuitous to observe the lives we have been creating all along without ever realizing information technology. I don't want to wait anymore. I cull to believe that there is zip more than sacred or profound than this day. I cull to believe that at that place may be a thousand large moments embedded in this day, waiting to be discovered like tiny shards of gold. The large moments are the daily, tiny moments of courage and forgiveness and hope that nosotros grab on to and extend to i another. That's the drama of life, swirling all around u.s., and by and large I don't even run across it, because I'm likewise decorated waiting to go whatever it is I think I am almost to become. The big moments are in every hour, every conversation, every repast, every meeting. The Heisman Trophy winner knows this. He knows that his large moment was not when they gave him the trophy. It was the k times he went to practice instead of going back to bed. Information technology was the miles run on rainy days, the healthy meals when a burger sounded like heaven. That big moment represented and rested on a foundation of moments that had come before information technology. I believe that if we cultivate a true attention, a deep ability to see what has been at that place all along, we will find worlds inside usa and between united states, dreams and stories and memories spilling over. The nuances and shades and secrets and intimations of love and friendship and marriage an parenting are activity-packed and multicolored, if you know where to expect. Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you've been waiting for is happening all around you lot. The scene unfolding correct exterior your window is worth more than the almost beautiful painting, and the crackers and peanut butter that you're having for tiffin on the coffee table are as profound, in their ain way, as the Last Supper. This is it. This is life in all its celebrity, swirling and unfolding around united states of america, disguised equally pedantic, pedestrian non-events. But pull of the mask and you will find your life, waiting to be fabricated, called, woven, crafted. Your life, correct at present, today, is exploding with free energy and ability and detail and dimension, better than the all-time pic you have ever seen. Y'all and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner table and your garage have all the makings of a life of ballsy proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the truthful culmination of super and natural. Yous are more than grit and bones. You lot are spirit and power and image of God. And you have been given Today." ― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
"Maybe you think you lot'll exist entitled to more than happiness later by forgoing all of it at present, only information technology doesn't piece of work that style. Happiness takes every bit much practice every bit unhappiness does. It'due south by living that yous live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a petty less. Every lonely twenty-four hours makes you a little smaller. Every day y'all put off your life makes you less capable of living information technology." ― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
"Knowing someone isn't coming back doesn't mean you ever finish waiting" ― Toby Barlow
"Look. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you lot make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible chat, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you lot feel more and more broken-hearted until your loved 1 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 fright makes you embarrassed about showing amore." ― Paulo Coelho, Past the River Piedra I Sabbatum Down and Wept
"The await is long, my dream of you does non end." ― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You
"I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting." ― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Retentivity
"I accept noticed that the people who are belatedly are frequently so much jollier than the people who take to wait for them." ― E. V. Lucas
"Waiting on God requires the willingness to acquit doubt, to comport inside oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about information technology whenever it intrudes upon i'due south thoughts." ― Elizabeth Elliot
"Is that why y'all've been pushing me abroad? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. Subsequently Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--alpine, curt, fatty, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care near what you looked like? The mankind was the shell that housed the celebrity[....] Even if I couldn't exist your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you experience depends on how you look!" ― Anne Bishop, Dreams Made Flesh
"Patience, he thought. Then much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things correct. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking." ― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
"I am the one thing in life I can command. I am inimitable; I am an original. I'1000 not falling behind or running belatedly. I'm not standing still: I am lying in wait." ― Lin-Manuel Miranda
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