“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
― Hatchet
― Hatchet
“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. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
― Sisterhood Everlasting
― Sisterhood Everlasting
“The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.”
― My Dream of You
― My Dream of You
“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.”
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“...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.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
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