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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene 
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
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)
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Spirit is always waiting to rush into us,
but we are too full of worldly things.
It is like trying to pour fine wine into a cup filled with mud -
the wine is waiting, but the mud must be removed first.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stress is always waiting
just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Sweetest Strawberry:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger after him.
Coming to a precipice,
he caught hold of the root of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where,
far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.
Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black,
little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand,
he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted.
- Zen Koan
When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't worry about that chair with a hole in the middle.
It's merely waiting to be reupholstered.
- the movie Casino Royale (1966)
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My JOY Factory is Immense.
I don't wait for joy,
I manufacture my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Spirit has unlimited patience,
and will wait for me to evolve.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
Spread your wings - TODAY. Why wait?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait
- John Milton
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A city is a place where there is no need to
wait for next week to get the answer to a question,
to taste the food of any country,
to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
- Margaret Mead
On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
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