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"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."
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"She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes & her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait."
"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."
"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."
"You don't have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near, it has been preparing for it all of its life."
"If you wait, you can have what you want."
"It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away."
Explore more quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."
"In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that."
"In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us."
"In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise."
"Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances."
"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us."
"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."
"For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time."
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