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"Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, 'Include me'. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like."
"In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
"Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right."
"I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore."
"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all."
"Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it."
"We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!"
"Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it."
"If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better."
"While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like."
"Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting."
"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared."
"Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait."
"I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written."
"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."
"Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything."
"There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak."
"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"
"That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back."
