how you act

“Patience is not the ability to wait, 

but how you act while you’re waiting.”

i've waited long enough

i've waited long enough to feel sparkly again, 

i don't want to be dragged back into darkness

Frozen + wait…what?

I’m pinned to the spot but not out of fear;

Yours eyes flash like lightning 

when they look at me; 

I can see the storms raging

and I can’t seem to look away - 

I’m pinned to the spot 

but not out of fear; 

no, I don’t fear your dark

and stormy eyes, 

because I can’t wait

to be engulfed by you, 

to get caught up 

in your tempestuous stare.

— Lauren Oliver, Delirium #1

“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.”

People wait

“People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness”

Unknown

“Someday someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look at you like you’re everything they’ve been looking for their entire lives. Wait for it.”

— Ofer Moses

“Don’t wait to realize you shouldn’t have waited.”

because honestly i don't want

Find the best in everybody.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, 
and people will surprise and impress you. 
It might even take years, but people will show 
you their good side. Just keep waiting.

You have to go get it.

— Ava DuVernay

I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. 

They’ll say, 
‘I’ll wait until this happens, 
I’ll wait until I go to film school, 
I’ll wait until I have all the money, 
I’ll wait until they ask me.’ 
Don’t wait for permission. 
Seek without permission. 
There’s nothing to wait for. 
There’s no one coming. 
There’s nothing coming to do this for you. 
You have to do it yourself. 
The mantra ‘do it yourself’ ultimately says ‘do not wait for anyone or anything.’ 
You have to get up and do that thing. 
Especially as women filmmakers, as filmmakers of color, anyone who is outside of the dominant culture, anyone who is not getting handed anything, which is most of us, we cannot wait. 
You have to figure it out on your own and be confident in that and enjoy the ride. 
Because it is a ride. 
Even starting my PR firm and running that business. 
No one was going to hand that career to me. 
We have to seek without permission and don’t wait for anything.”

to pick the wrong guy.

When you're thinking about how much you miss me and I am completely fine.

You can't always get what you want,

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you will get what you need.

i can't wait to kiss you.

just sit and wait

but no matter how long

it takes one minute 

to like someone, 

a month to love, 

forever to forget, 

but no matter how long 

you wait or how hard 

you try there is no 

reason to regret.

Do you ever get that feeling where you don’t want to talk to anybody?

Do you ever get that feeling where you don’t want to talk to anybody? You don’t want to smile and you don’t want to fake being happy but at the same time you don’t know exactly what’s wrong either, there isn’t a way to explain it to someone who doesn’t already understand. If you could want anything in the world it would be to be alone. People have stopped being comforting and being alone never was. But at least when you’re alone no one constantly asks you what’s wrong and there isn’t anyone who won’t take “I don’t know” for an answer. You feel the way you do just because. You hope the feeling will pass soon and that you will be able to be yourself again, but until then all you can do is wait.

here's to this moment. this moment in your life when nothing at all is perfect, but everything feels so right.

you grow up so fast in high school. it's not something you wait for, it just kinda happens. one day you'll look back and be proud of who you've become, while at the same time, miss who you were.