"Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!"
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"Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it."
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"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that."
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"I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always."
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"First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability."
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"If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time."
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"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting."
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"Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never."
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"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."
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"(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can."
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"As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard."
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"I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever."
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"When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next."
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"Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for."
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"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."
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"Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!"
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"Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting."
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"You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever."
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"Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material."
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