{"id":634,"date":"2008-10-08T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/08\/learning-to-wait\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:00:51","slug":"learning-to-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I&#8217;ve started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things.\u00c2\u00a0 Waiting can be very, very powerful.\u00c2\u00a0 Time is a valuable thing.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you throw up in the air, however many times you banged your head against the wall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The Courage to Change <em>by Dennis Wholey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have to put our life on hold while we wait.\u00c2\u00a0 We can direct our attention elsewhere; we can practice acceptance and gratitude in the interim; we can trust that we do have a life to live while we are waiting &#8212; then we go about living it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>The Language of Letting Go, <\/em>p. 293<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things.\u00c2\u00a0 Waiting can be very, very powerful.\u00c2\u00a0 Time is a valuable thing.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you throw up in the air, however [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}