“If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again (Bones)”
Jeaniene Frost
Category Archives: WAITING
It’s hard being left behind. It’s hard to be the one who stays. Audrey Niffenegger
“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
“If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that’s one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.” Tristan Jones
As the boat sometimes carries the cart across the stream and the cart sometimes transports the boat to the river bank, so men are subject to reverses in fortune; sometimes they are rich and support others and sometimes they are poor and become dependent on the help of others.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
If an ocean steamer is caught in a fog the best thing to do is to anchor and stand still; when in our troubles we are befogged the best thing we can do is to anchor and stand still until the light of heaven appears.
WAITING FOR THE PAST
looking off the short horizon, the Sun a white daystar of squinch glazing the ground like frozen twilight, no life, no company, no nearness, never a memory or a joke . . . LES MURRAY
“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life? ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
C’est un ami a toute epreuve = He is a well- tried, faithful, trusty friend.
The late ferry is leaving now; I stay to watch from the balcony
ROBERT GRAY THE LATE FERRY
“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain…” – Van Morrison
Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. Terry Pratchett
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
― T.S. Eliot
Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever. Madagascar
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 25 May 1935
A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap. African
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 11 June 1927,
The problem with finding the easiest way, is that the
enemy already booby trapped it.
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. Einstein.
A computer’s such an asset for your lovely little park
I’ll teach you how to crawl the web – if you wait until it’s dark!
I don’t want you to bug it, or to introduce a worm –
I’ll only teach you one by one – just wait and take your turn.”
Everybody is waiting for cooler weather–and I am just waiting for you. (Bob Dylan in a letter)” ― Suze Rotolo,
A Freewheelin’ Time: Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Bob Dylan and Me
Sometimes, no matter how much you want for things to happen, all you can do is wait
down by the seashore, where life is a little easier!
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No reply is best
It is often advisable not to give any answer. Don’t say no. Don’t say yes. Say nothing.
http://www.englishclub.com/ref/Sayings/Talking/
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
from the Fox-”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
The Dawn (Sydney, NSW : 1888 – 1905) , Tuesday 15 May 1888,
In every drop of water, there is a story of life.”
~ Leena Arif
http://www.tranquilwaters.uk.com/water.html
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He that waits long at the ferry Will get across sometime
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/corpus/seanfhaclan/MacDonald.html
“And I will stroll the merry way
And jump the hedges first
And I will drink the clear
Clean water for to quench my thirst
And I shall watch the ferry-boats
And they’ll get high
On a bluer ocean
Against tomorrow’s sky
And I will never grow so old again
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
― Van Morrison
There’s no rage like old lady rage, just as there’s no tenderness like old lady tenderness.”
― Tina Howe, Pride’s Crossing
You know she’s waiting
Just anticipating
For things that she’ll never never never never possess, yeah yeah
But while she’s there waiting, without them
Try a little tenderness (that’s all you gotta do)
“Trust your ability!”
Itzhak Perlman
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
– Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Venus, I pray to You that all pimps may suffer.
Propertius Eligiae 2.16.13-14
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
If you decide to eat a toad, you should at least select one that is big.
(Igbo)
“Turn from that road’s beguiling ease; return
to your hunger’s turret. Enter, climb the stair
chill with disuse, where the croaking toad of time
regards from shimmering eyes your slow ascent
and the drip, drip, of darkness glimmers on the stone
to show you how your longing waits alone.
What alchemy shines from under that shut door,
spinning out gold from the hollow of the heart?
(“The Sea’s Wash In The Hollow Of The Heart”)”
― Denise Levertov
A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas
We are what our thinking makes us.
~Nigerian proverb Read more: http://www.gadel.info/2011/03/ghanaian-and-nigerian-proverbs.html#ixzz2LFE5Gfjr
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
― Bertrand Russell
Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.
Kathleen Norris
“I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house
full of rooms: there is a hall, through which everyone passes in
going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits . . .
and in the innermost room, the holy of holies,
the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.”
― Edith Wharton, The Fullness of Life
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
“If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it.
I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil
and its head bent low with patience.
The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish,
and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.
Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds’ nests,
and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
― C.S. Forester, The African Queen
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