#waiting

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#disease #doctors #life #medical-training #medicine

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#inspirational #living #unhappiness #waiting #inspirational

Tides do what tides do–they turn. ↗

— Derek Landy

#turning-tides #waiting #change

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#ersatz-elevator #lemony-snicket #waiting #courage

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#big #big fan #fan #groom #him

Was I asleep? Had I slept? ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#dream #reality #sleep #waiting #dreams

What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someone that he knew would never appear. He had long understood that one of his selves, the earliest and most vulnerable, had never left this place, and this original and clearest view of things could be recovered only through what had first come to him in the glow of its ordinary light and weather...it was the light they appeared in that was the point, and that at least had not changed. ↗

— David Malouf

#history #past #personal-history #waiting #change

I’ll be waiting in my trunk, with the engine of your car. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#car #waiting #life

I'll be here when you get back. ↗

— Ally Carter

#family #loyalty #waiting #family

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ↗

— Alan Brien

#been #being #collecting #congenial #debt