"Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting."
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"You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself."
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"If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes."
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"Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do."
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"I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer."
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"As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for"
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"Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew."
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"I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In fact, sometimes it's right in the middle of our darkness in the middle of our crisis, in the middle of our Plan B struggles that God speaks most clearly."
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"Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait."
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"As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating."
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"The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait."
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"Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence."
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"During the night we must wait for the light."
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"The great universe is filled with an abundance of all things, filled to overflowing. All there is, is in her, waiting only for the touch of the right forces to cast them forth."
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"When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."
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"Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it."
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"You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power."
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"Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?"
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"Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation."
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"Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress."
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