waiting, n.Definitions

Waiting is often a good sign — one usually has to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Waiting is a source of power — expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Waiting is a power dynamic — to make someone wait is the constant prerogative of all power.

Waiting is a conundrum — it is both painful to wait for something and painful to leave something behind, but most painful of all is the pain that attends not knowing which to do.

Waiting is such that he who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Waiting is an important feature in the process of psychoanalysis, whereby the doctor identifies the symptom to the patient and then has nothing else to do than 'to wait' and let things take their course . . . Which cannot be avoided or hastened.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer one waits, the more one hears about him for whom we are waiting.