waiting for my Peace Corps offer...

I turn to others for some simple truths:

“None of us knows what the next change is going to be,
what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner,
waiting a few months or a few years to
change all the tenor of our lives.”

~ Kathleen Norris quotes

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“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are,
and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself
and
in the direction you have chosen.”

 ~ Ralph Marston quotes

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“The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile”

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“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it.”
~Arnold H. Glasgow 

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“Patience is passion tamed.”

~Lyman Abbott 

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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

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 “Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
~Ambrose Bierce

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

           ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ (1934)