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A hard lesson learned recently; when you are not making an income, you must surrender to some out comes.
— Robert Wesley Miller
To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.
— Arnold Palmer, A Life Well Played: My Stories
Trials or little tests contain lessons to be learnt.
— Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics
Every single experience enriches the soul, like sun and water to the soil, depends how you make most of it.
— raja shakeel mushtaque
The art of leaving and the art of loving are not the same.
— Akif Kichloo
There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream.
— Maya Angelou
Some people are not meant to be a part of our lives forever. Some people visit our lives for a brief period, not to stay in it, but to show us something that we have been unable to see it ourselves. In the form of a gift, a lesson or a piece of wisdom, they change the course of our life and help us to fulfill our destiny.
— Purba Chakraborty, Shades Of Life
Maybe you should take some lessons from the forest crooner,' he suggests.
— Leslea Wahl, The Perfect Blindside
your vision should be like a DSLR lens, only positivity should be focused and negativity should be blurred
— Hrishikesh J C
The biggest problem which is ever than is from the parents by saying "Don't give your money to the kids" or something like this. People must learn to risk, to make risks, not to be people which to play safety. If it is safety where is adrenaline? Where is the mess?? Where is the curiosity?? Where is the reward after all done??Where are the challanges which change your way of thinking?? Where are the lessons???Parents should teach their child or children about safety and about the risk. "They must say to them that to make risk is the part of the proccess!
— Deyth Banger
In the haste to imitate an idol, in the race to become someone else, we forget the most important lesson.How to be ourselves.
— Nadun Lokuliyanage
There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Haven’t you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.
— Josephine Angelini, Firewalker
..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.
— Lemony Snicket, The End
Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
— Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
Lessons are learned through making mistakes, falling and rising.
— Sunday Adelaja
A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.
— Tony Curl
We learn something when someone passes through our lives. Some lessons are painful. Some lessons are painless & some lessons are priceless.
— Srinivas Shenoy
I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.
— Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student
You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons.
— Ron Baratono
It’s mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches
— Sunday Adelaja
Change your life experiences through the thoughts you think.Practice thinking good thoughts and your life will reflect what you are thinking.We have the blessing of choice.
— Valerie Kerr
Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixure of both.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne
A MAN WHO SUFFERS BEFORE IT IS NECESSARY,SUFFERS MORE THAN NECESSARY!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
TAKE' nothing for granted..The 'GIVE' may be expensive!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to grasp the universal principles that allow the technique to work in the first place and that will finally enable you to transcend the form itself to discover the formless.
— H.E. Davey, Brush Meditation: A Japanese Way to Mind & Body Harmony
No man can escape the shadow of his own character." Let us hope we are casting the right kind of shadow!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..
— honeya
I believe in the understanding of difficult situations, difficult music, or any kind of difficulties, through familiarity. Familiarity, in this case, does not breed contempt, but breeds understanding.
— Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said
Share your problems with people who can help you solve them or you will only feel humiliated.
— honeya
Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.
— Kevin James Breaux
Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.
— Brad Paisley, Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me
I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give up," she whispered back.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned.
— Sameh Elsayed
Now days people are using "Temples" & God as a business purposes. Instead of wasting money on them donate that to some poor people they will bless you right from there heart, you only think how can a piece of stone will bless you.!! Donate to poor people atleast they won't sleep hungry .!! Make a Change a happy world !!
— Rohit Kumar Singh
You are not an apology, do not treat yourself like one; your lips are perfect for kissing, your hips do not spell 'sorry'.
— Azra T.
Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.
— Lama Surya Das, Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be
Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.
— Maria Shriver, Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World
Sometimes the most painful lessons are delivered by someone masquerading as a soul mate.
— Steve Maraboli
Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.
— Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.
— Jude Watson, The Deadly Hunter
A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.
— Ashok  Kallarakkal
Ignore your pain at your peril. Your most potent lessons are often wrapped within its uncomfortable embrace...
— Simon Boylan
A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.
— Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.
— Vladimir Bartol
Reina sounds awesome,” Sid says. “I’m digging her more and more.”“Were you there?” I ask. “Have you seen one of these movies?”“No,” Scottie says.“Scottie,” Alex says, kicking Sid in the ribs. “Reina is a fuckedup ho bag, and you need to stay away from her. I’ve already told you that. Do you want to end up like me?”“Yes,” Scottie says.“I mean the earlier me, when I was yelling at Mom.”“No,” Scottie says.“Well, Reina is going to be a crackhead, and she’s going to get used. She’s a twat. Say it.”“Twat,” Scottie says. She gets up and runs across the room, saying, “Twat twat twat twat twat.”“Holy shit,” Sid says. “This is some messed-up parenting. Isn’t it?”Alex shrugs. “Maybe. I guess we’ll see.”“I don’t get it,” I say. “I don’t know what to do. These things she does, they keep happening.”“It will go away,” Alex says.“Will it? I mean, look at how you kids talk. In front of me, especially. It’s like you don’t respect authority.”The kids stare at the television. I tell them to get out. I’m going to bed.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants
History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King
Pay no attention to haters,attention is what they crave.
— Cher Lloyd
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.
— Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank
Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.
— B.J. Neblett
Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.
— Donna Freitas, The Survival Kit
To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.
— Martin Dugard, To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person
There's a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on the road watching the cars around you, road signs, and traffic lights. Along with your mind on the road and destination. Which means you are multitasking. When your texting your eyes are on your cell phone screen and key pad. Along with your mind on what your going to say next. So how can you do both? Please stop!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
Live your life remembering good experiences, the bad ones were just lessons
— Michello Borgo
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.
— Cristian L. Martinez
Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it
— Jayden P
Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.
— Marina Leigh Hatfield
The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
— Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You
Knowing someone isn't coming backdoesn't mean you ever stop waiting
— Toby Barlow
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you."Her face is buried in my neck. She nods."I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men
—  women do it much more often.
Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)
— Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin' Time: Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Bob Dylan and Me
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
— Oswald Chambers
When you chose to follow the way of purity, did you expect it to be easy? When you decided to wait for the best, did you think that waiting would be fun? Did you think that your faith would not be tested? When you decided to take the narrow path, did no one warn you that difficulties, hardship, and tears would be part of the journey, and that you would often face rejection from others and be forced to walk alone? My daughter, that which you wait for the longest you treasure the most, and through much struggle the prize is won.
— Sarah Mally, Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,keeping her voice low.“The last time we were in this building, we accused theGrand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I thinkwe’ll be waiting long.
— Derek Landy, The Faceless Ones
There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
— Ann Brashares, The Last Summer
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.
— Jason F. Wright, The Wednesday Letters
There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a boy who found a girl during a terrible time.” “How did it turn out?” “I don’t know, but I do know the boy doesn’t regret it. Not a minute. No matter how it turns out. Because he’s been waiting for this girl from the time she was born, and if it takes another thousand years to meet her again, he’d wait again. Whatever it takes.
— Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.
— Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
I never knew I never knew that everything was falling through That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue To turn and run when all I needed was the truth But that's how it's got to be It's coming down to nothing more than apathy I'd rather run the other way than stay and see The smoke and who's still standing when it clears Everyone knows I'm in Over my headOver my head With eight seconds left in overtime She's on your mindShe's on your mind Let's rearrange I wish you were a stranger I could disengage Just say that we agree and then never change Soften a bit until we all just get along But that's disregard Find another friend and you discard As you lose the argument in a cable car Hanging above as the canyon comes between Everyone knows I'm in Over my headOver my head With eight seconds left in overtime She's on your mindShe's on your mind Everyone knows I'm in Over my headOver my head With eight seconds left in overtime She's on your mind She's on your ... And suddenly I become a part of your past I'm becoming the part that don't last I'm losing you and its effortless Without a sound we lose sight of the ground In the throw around Never thought that you wanted to bring it down I won't let it go down till we torch it ourselves And everyone knows I'm in Over my headOver my head With eight seconds left in overtime She's on your mindShe's on your mind Everyone knows She's on your mind Everyone knows I'm in over my head I'm in over my head I'm over my... Everyone knows I'm in Over my headOver my head With eight seconds left in overtime She's on your mindShe's on your mind.
— The Fray
You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things happen to me. They do. They have to go ahead and happen. You watch – you wait… Things still happen here and something is waiting to happen to me. I can tell. Recently my life feels like a bloodcurdling joke. Recently my life has taken on *form* Something is waiting. I am waiting. Soon, it will stop waiting – any day now. Awful things can happen any time. This is the awful thing.
— Martin Amis
A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an infant, really, I was at the mercy of others. Hour after hour of my life was spent waiting.
— Rosie Sultan, Helen Keller in Love
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
— John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
We are always waiting, aren't we? All in a state of hesitation and held breath. Sometimes it's glorious like a storm at the end of a hot day.
— Na, I'll Be Seeing You
But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray
— Maeve Binchy, The Glass Lake
When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.
— Jeff Manion, The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions
He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through. Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume, perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the temperature rise at this one spot where a person's standing might raise the immediate atmosphere ten degrees for an instant. There was no understanding it. Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white, unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak.But now, tonight, he slowed almost to a stop. His inner mind, reaching out to turn the corner for him, had heard the faintest whisper. Breathing? Or was the atmosphere compressed merely by someone standing very quietly there, waiting?He turned the corner.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
And oh, heaven - the crowded playhouse, the stench of perfume upon heated bodies, the silly laughter and the clatter, the party in the Royal box - the King himself present - the impatient crowd in the cheap seats stamping and shouting for the play to begin while they threw orange peel on to the stage.
— Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
Waiting and waiting and waiting... for somebody to reply... but nobody is going to reply.
— Deyth Banger, Deep Legend
I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
Don't sit around waiting for it to happen. Get out there and make it happen!
— Anthony T. Hincks
We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called “Between.
— Katherine J Walden
God is waiting for you to bear fruits
— Sunday Adelaja
If you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it'll never happen.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.
— Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what: I am reminded of the moments before the coming of a cyclone, when you have barricaded yourself into your dwelling and have nothing else to do but wait. The moments will not pass, the air hangs still and heavy; it is as though time itself has been slowed by the friction of fear.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
Waiting so long... for 0 result?
— Deyth Banger, All As None and More
The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
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— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
I know it's going to be a long wait.. But I chose to wait, even if its going to be forever..
— Danya Krish
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Estragon: And if he doesn't come?Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.
— Samuel Beckett
Waiting was sometimes the most proactive thing a person could do.
— Sharon Carter Rogers, Unpretty
In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation...
— Maxwell Rivera
E: Well, shall we go?V: Yes, let's go.(They do not move)
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.
— Mandy Hale
Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible
— Mandy Hale
The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for.
— Shannon L. Alder
That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.
— Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
I thought of the girl in the photo in Ronnie's studio, the one on layaway. She was probably waiting for him this very moment, somewhere downtown. Checking the clock, applying lipstick, concentrating herself into an arrow pointed at Ronnie. Doing the various things women did when they had to wait for something they wanted.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.
— Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable
—  I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still: I am lying in wait.
Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
...Have patience everything with the waiting one moment it will be ready be patient.
— Deyth Banger
I couldn’t wait for success ― so I went ahead without it.
— Jonathan Winters
Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter how long we wait, God’s promise shall be fulfilled.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
— David Baldacci, The Last Mile
Infinite possibilities are waiting for you to notice them.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.
— Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
I am flying blindly but sure to meet some day...wait for me!
— Archana Singh
What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
I wait, wait to hear your silent footsteps. I wait, wait to caress your distant voice.I wait, wait to embrace myself in you.
— Debatrayee Banerjee, A Whispering Leaf. . .
Waiting is a very active part of living. Waiting on God, if we do it correctly, is anything but passive. Waiting works its way out in very deliberate actions, very intentionally searching the Scriptures and praying, intense moments of humility, and self-realization of our finiteness. With the waiting comes learning. I can’t think of much I’ve learned that’s positive from the times I’ve plowed ahead without waiting on God.
— Wayne Stiles, Waiting on God: What to Do When God Does Nothing
That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.
— Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come
—  the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.
Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.
— Andreï Makine
And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but holdAnd freshen in this air of withering sweetness;
— Robert Frost
What we do while we wait may be more important than what we are waiting for.
— Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a ‘we must do something universe,’ it is a ‘we must be serious universe!’ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, ‘waiting’ must be abolished!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We spent all your life for things and not dedicate the things that await us.
— Davi Oliveira
You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.
— R.C. Lewis, Stitching Snow
The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.
— Ashay Abbhi, Chronicles of Urban Nomads
This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass,the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on the shore where a moment ago there were two. Softly my right hand fondles my left hand as though it were you.
— Mary Oliver, Blue Horses
Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether.
— Regina Sirois, On Little Wings
Where do people...and why do people...have to wait, and what tends to happen when they do? So far, I have one observation to offer. It seems that waiting is a crucible. It tests us. It's when God's people have to wait that they get in trouble. The alternative to waiting for God is idolatry.
— Marcia Lebhar
For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.
— Cezmi Ersöz
The seeker might aim to hide too, make sure the person you are waiting for is trustworthy, if not there will be no one looking for you.
— Jasmine Kiyani
You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To forget would mean the things we never knew	had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .
— John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems
And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.
— Melanie Shankle, The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life
Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
— Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end.
— Alice Hoffman, Property Of
Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.
— Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Waiting is not always a bad thing
—  it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.
First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of the eldest could remember; as long as the record books had kept steady score. By the time the first buds were edging their green shoots from the dirt, the parade grounds had been cleared and the maypole had been pulled from its exile in the basement of the Mansion. The board had met and the Queen decided; all that was left was the wait. The wait for May.
— Colin Meloy, Wildwood Imperium
When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As Housewives do a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls —And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse —If only Centuries, delayed, I'd count them on my Hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I ’d toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity. But, now, uncertain of the length Of this, that is between, It goads me, like the Goblin Bee, That will not state — its sting.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
— Kathy Acker, Eurydice in the Underworld
Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.
— G.A. Aiken
On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside. Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and bench and girl. What is it about snow globes that makes them fascinating and terrifying at once?My heart lurches at the thought of the snow-globe girl waiting endlessly, with only the hope of a new snow blizzard to settle on her mantle when the next person tips her snow-globe world over. Not a gust of breeze may ruffle her skirt, not a bird may perch atop the steeple. The only way out of a snow globe is by shattering the glass dome that is its sky.
— Amruta Patil, Kari
I became addicted to the floating nature of nothingness, to the charm of its carefree pauses and to waiting. I magnified waiting. I wrote about waiting. I basked in its warm nook and completely let go of who I am or what I really wanted.
— Ibraheem Hamdi, The Cashmere Scarf
Um..." I mumbled, "We wait.""What? Wait? Do you expect them to just come up here to the beach to get some moonlight?" He sneered as he took another bite of the eagle.
— Grace Fiorre, The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything
For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Waiting. 	That’s always what being a spy comes down to, isn’t it?
— Embee, Tess Embers
Now she sat in their dining hall, a book in her lap but unread while she stared blankly across the room.Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.
— G.A. Aiken, Dragon Actually
Waiting makes wine better
—  but waiting makes man decay! Don’t wait because you have no time! Move fast!
Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
I don't want to wait anymore. I choose to believe that there is nothing more sacred or profound than this day.I choose to believe that there may be a thousand big moments embedded in this day, waiting to be discovered like tiny shards of gold. The big moments are the daily, tiny moments of courage and forgiveness and hope that we grad onto and extend to one another. That's the drama of life, swirling all around us, and generally I don't see it, because I'm too busy waiting to become whatever it is I think I'm about to become. The big moments are in every hour, every conversation, every meal, every meeting.
— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.
— Elisabeth Elliot
No more tomorrows. Today is the day.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change.
— ياسر أحمد
Marriage is nothing to underestimate. Success in marriage is about getting back up, again and again. Ultimately, the Shulamite had to write her own role in Solomon's drama. She made Solomon's problems her problems. For her, that was worth every bruise.pg ii
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
Sometimes the planning and the work is not the most difficult aspect of an endeavor; it’s the waiting—waiting to see if the preparation, the implementation, and the bait, will land a catch—waiting, that time in between the effort and the result, the source of so much hope, frustration, doubt, anxiety, and perhaps, disenchantment. It can try those with even the firmest resolve.
— Paul J. Bartusiak, Source*Forged Armor
You have a direct line to Christ; He’s waiting for your call". HS/el
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
I lit the candles and said out loud, “what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?” And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.
— Paula Heller Garland
so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?""Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.
— Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
— Elizabeth Berg, Until The Real Thing Comes Along
The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.
— Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
You remember how he used to be girl on either arm? You really don't see that guy too much anymore. Why do you think that is? He's waiting for you. I know you're dealing with stuff but you cannot ask him to wait forever! Unless of course, you're okay with him pulling away.""What if it doesn't work out? What if it ends up like you and Javier?""Well at least we gave it a shot. And so it didn't work out, so what? Now, we can move on give or take the occasional booty call.""I just don't wanna lose what we have, you know?""Girl please! What exactly do you have, really?""A friendship.""No. What you and I have is a friendship. What you and castle have is a holding pattern. How long can you circle before the fuel runs out?
— Richard Castle
Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
— Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics
...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.
— Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up mood lighting or hiding dead bodies. Or if someone was up there waiting to stab me again. Or if someone was up there waiting to hand me a crown and tell me I was the long-lost princess of Genovia. Or if I'd tumble into a pit of lava, only to get saved at the last second by a flying carpet.
— Lindsay Ribar, The Art of Wishing
This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them
— Mark Mason, The C Words
They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.
— Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.
— kent Ian N. Cny
The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings.
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.
— Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
This is torture, torture, torture.Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened???I'm not as nice in the world today. I am scowly. I am trying to be good and not fussy, but frankly, this is less fun. And I am getting grumpy about the prospect of many, many more days like this ahead.
— Bill Shapiro, Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
Outside the seasons passed: sun, snow, spring green, October storms . . . was this a vision of my future? When would the shunning hero come, to set the clock if my life in motion again? Would he come some morning, or in the night? In April or December? This year? Next year? I shuddered. No, I wouldn't just sit and wait. I wanted to go out. Maybe there were new men out there, better men, men who'd just been waiting for me. Somewhere someone is always waiting for someone.
— Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
People tell me I excel in Public Relations, what I suck at are private affairs.
— Ioana-Cristina Casapu, Deviații de stereo
A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.
— Diyar Harraz, After the Storm
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
— N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
— A.W. Tozer, Preparing for Jesus' Return: Daily Live the Blessed Hope
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.
— David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it.
— Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality
We don't do the cleaning, the Holy Spirit does
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
For Christians it's always a love game ... that He is love itself ... Indeed, some have suggested that one way of understanding the Spirit is to see the Spirit as the personal love which the Father has for the Son and the Son for the Father.
— N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
I know that no one is my judge. I live according to my own conscience and value discernment which is governed by Holy Spirit. I know my intentions and I walk my path with a clear conscience. Be careful not to make assumptions. I don't even allow my left hand to know what my right hand does. What makes you think I should explain my every unction and action to you?
— Mishi McCoy, The Lovely Knowing
Always be prepared. Preparation with the anointing of the Holy Spirit secures success. Not being prepared and not having the anointing of the Holy Spirit, spells utter disaster
— Pr. Paddick Van Zyl
Believers who come to know the Scripture in a living way, in both knowledge and Spirit, can in turn, use this Word to minister to people around them.
— Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
...the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.
— Sam Storms, Practicing the Power