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"For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end."
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"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."
"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."
"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."
"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."
"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."
"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
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"The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."
"There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight."
"Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse."
"But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven."
"The most glorious hour in Manhattan was when twilight fell in sheets across the Great Lawn. Bands of blue turned darker by the moment as the last of the pale light filtered through the boughs of cherry trees and black locusts. In October, the meadows turned gold; the vines were twists of yellow and red."
"Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going."
"Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often."
"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."
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