W Quotes
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“Waiting is one of the great arts.”
Source: The Tiger in the Smoke
“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.”
Source: Odd Interlude #1
“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.”
Source: Odd Interlude
“Waiting is optional, suffering is inevitable, but pain is eternal”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Waiting is painful, testing and arduous. It makes us restless, but finally, when it rains after months of blazing heat, the feeling is too miraculous to capture in words.”
Source: Canvas of a Mind
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
“Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'”
“Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.”
“Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Waiting is the hardest work of hope.”
“Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.”
Source: Loving Pedro Infante
“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“Waiting is trusting that God has our larger story as you have trust issues.”
Source: Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“Waiting is wasting. Make the most of yourself and be the best version of yourself. Have Trust in Allah's greatness; He will provide everything.”
“Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.”
Source: The Wind From Hastings
“Waiting leads to wondering.”
“Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.”
“Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!”
“Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.”
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“Waiting means one gambles every minute of its life.”
“Waiting might be hard,
Waiting might be tough,
But when a man meets a woman he loves, waiting becomes merely an exercise - of self-discipline, patience, respect and devotion for building an all-round intimacy, one that exists beyond the physical.”
“Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“Waiting on God means increasing purity.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“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.”
“Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.”
Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat
“Waiting on the World to Change.”
“Waiting or pausing takes enormous skill and practice. However it is a skill that for you has become an essential way of being in the world without being so overwhelmed by it. Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, went even further when he famously said, 'Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response likes our growth and our freedom.'
Waiting in the Light enables you to create a space for grace.”
Source: Unclouded by Longing
“Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.”
“Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.”
Source: The Blueprint: A Revolutionary Plan to Plant Missional Communities on Campus
“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”
“Waiting requires patience. There are three words in that sentence that nobody likes.
Patience is not passivity. To be patient doesn’t mean you get to be idle and wait for something to change. I don’t get to “let go and let God.” I can’t “easy button” this to God. As if I actually could. I must stay in the tension.”
Source: Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Waiting's exhausting.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Waiting
She caught herself waiting by her bedroom window.
A window facing a quiet street,
where a car or two passed occasionally.
Otherwise, it was a motionless place.
The tree branches outside danced
Whenever the winds flirted with them.
Although she habitually sat by that window
every day, for years and years,
She never noticed her habit until today!
When she realized that, she felt heart sick and upset.
She didn’t know whether she was angry at herself
Or at the time she had wasted waiting.
What upset her even more
Was that she wasn’t waiting for any person to arrive,
Not even for the postman
Who no longer brought her any personal letters.
She was not waiting for a lover
A friend
Or for parents.
All those she once loved are long gone.
What was she waiting for all these years?
She asked herself this question a thousand times that day,
And she waited for her inner voice to answer.
She must know today!
It suddenly occurred to her that
Since she was a child,
She was waiting for the arrival of a person
Who she could never name or describe.
She could never put a body or a face
On their ambiguous figure.
It was a person who only visited her imagination
In the form of a shadow.
She realized that all her life,
She was yearning for something that she couldn’t name,
And thus, she remained waiting,
Wishing to find out one day
What or who she was waiting for.
February 9, 2013”
Source: أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
“Waiting shortens life!”
“Waiting silently for the day
when everything changes and those
fortifications crumble, and you can stand up,
pull off the head scarf
let your hair dance in the sun
lift your face to the skies as your words fly
free like butterflies
on the breeze.”
Source: The way it is
“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.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.”
Source: Atonement
“Waiting so long... for 0 result?”
Source: All As None and More
“Waiting taught me, I can't have it in my way. But in God's way.”
“Waiting.
That’s always what being a spy comes down to, isn’t it?”
Source: Tess Embers
“Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.”
Source: The Language of Letting Go
“Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace...as you sense your weakness, you receive His strength...as you lay down your will, you hear His calling.”
“Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.”
Source: The Mystery of Mercy Close
“Waiting to be asked to help, that is helping indeed. Insisting on helping without being told, that is service. Be approaching to be one step ahead”
“Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.”