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“We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.”

Past Waiting Trapped

Author:Anna Freud

“I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.”

Mean I Can Done Past Waiting Water Cooking Pasta Noodles

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”

Mean Enough Running Past Turns Waiting Wonder Worry Rocks Missing Seasons Distance Likes Pushing Horizon Fades Brushes Moses Pondering Rushing Advent

Author:Jan L. Richardson

“Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.”

Way Made Ends Past Waiting Rivers Village Adventurous Climax Swimmer Adventurous Life

Book:I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Ifs Stills Past Waiting Hours Prayer Loss Minutes Illusion Inheritance Compounds Calendars Unfinished Rosary

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.”

People Thinking Knows Way Life Should Children Facts Feelings Past Young Life Is Waiting Nice Our Children Awful Your Children Unexpected Impress Slipping

Book:Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford

Source: Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford

“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”

“While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Waiting Results Amount Tomorrow Bounds Poison Outlook Discontent Seasoning

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.”

People Years Two Past Three Fun Wish Waiting Cities Hell Five Tired Five Years Two Years Fifteen Jordan Autographs

Author:Michael Jordan

“The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.”

Past Waiting Always Waiting

Author:Mason Cooley