Henri Nouwen Quotes

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

The waiting is the hardest part.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

The long run may be too long.

The hardest thing about free agency is sometimes you want it right away but you have to wait and see see what happens.