Awaiting Quotes

Everything you wish to "create" is already there, waiting for you.

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.