WAITING QUOTES II
quotations about waiting
Waiting is hard. We wait in grocery lines, in traffic, in the doctor's office. We twiddle our thumbs, stifle our yawns, and fret inwardly in frustration. On another level, we wait for a letter that doesn't come, for a prodigal child to return, or for a spouse to change. We wait for a child we can hold in our arms. We wait for our heart's desire.
ANONYMOUS
"The discipline of waiting", The Philippine Star, January 26, 2016
There is an army of waiters in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.
CAMERON CONAWAY
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
What if the waiting was the good stuff that lead to the piece of pie. But once we eat the pie, we realize maybe it wasn't as good as we thought. Maybe it was the laughing while mixing the dough, the taste testing of the cherries, the checking of the oven, the wonder in the science of baking that was actually the real prize. Pie for thought, anyway.
ANNA LIND THOMAS
"Life is lived in the waiting, so make the best of it", Omaha World-Herald, February 3, 2017
Of course, we spend so much of our time waiting, and we don't even notice that we're doing it. Life, the way so many of us live it, is waiting. Waiting to finally meet the right person, waiting to finally get married, have kids, buy a house. Waiting for Kanye to tweet. Remember that older, nomadic hippie you dated who blew your mind talking about living in the moment? But then that pretty grunge boy rolled away on his bike, never followed up on your plans to hang out in a graveyard, and you forgot everything he said. But in the back of your brain, you knew he was right.
ELIZA BROOKE & CHANTAL FERNANDEZ
"Shop It Out: What to Wear While Waiting for Frank Ocean's Next Album", Fashionista, January 29, 2016
So how do you wait? You just do, because waiting is an innate skill. You cannot learn to wait. You cannot use a method to wait. You cannot practice waiting. All trying to wait is not waiting. Trying to wait is failing to wait.
KEVIN EVERETT FITZMAURICE
Self: Who Am I?
We are all waiting for something. Waiting for the doctor, waiting for the phone call, waiting in traffic, waiting for the plane, waiting for the baby, waiting for spring. Waiting is an inevitable part of life and can certainly be frustrating and stressful. As Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers sang, waiting is the hardest part. However, it doesn't have to be a time of misery.
MICHELE
"7 Ways to Make Waiting Less Stressful", BlogHer, January 29, 2016
All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The pain of waiting is a dull, numb one.
ELIZA BROOKE & CHANTAL FERNANDEZ
"Shop It Out: What to Wear While Waiting for Frank Ocean's Next Album", Fashionista, January 29, 2016
Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison.
CHLOE THURLOW
Katie in Love
But everyone's waiting
I hear that answers appear when you just stand still
But make it all, how do you make it all stop
When everyone's waiting?
Everyone's waiting.
MISSY HIGGINS
"Everyone's Waiting"
Maybe life isn't about accomplishing the dream, the goal or the vision. Maybe life is really about the choices we make right now, while we're in the waiting.
ANNA LIND THOMAS
"Life is lived in the waiting, so make the best of it", Omaha World-Herald, February 3, 2017
If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.
WALTER BARGEN
"Map to the Party"
If we're going to wait for that special moment anyway, we might as well enjoy it.
ANNA LIND THOMAS
"Life is lived in the waiting, so make the best of it", Omaha World-Herald, February 3, 2017
The inaction of waiting is charged with significance.
ALAN BLUM
Imaginative Structure of the City
Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less.
ANN BRASHARES
Sisterhood Everlasting
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"A Psalm of Life"
There's all these people waiting, like waiting for something is enough to make it happen. That's the future, having something to wait for. I'm glad I don't have a future then. I hate waiting.
BERNARD BECKETT
No Alarms
The whole promise of technology is this: If you want it, you got it. But what if waiting is an essential part of the goodness of the world?
JEN POLLOCK MICHEL
"How to Binge Watch Like a Believer", Christianity Today, April 17, 2017
"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
South of the Border, West of the Sun