"I can think. I can fast. And I can wait."
Siddhartha - character in the book of the same name by Herman Hesse
"If you can wait, and not grow tired of waiting...."
Rudyard Kipling (from his poem, 'If')
"When there's nothing else that you can do, all you can do is wait. And accept the waiting with equanimity."
GW
People have been getting so uptight about the delayed relaunch of the Fantasy Premier League game this year. Vain and foolish, a waste of emotional energy.
Ungrateful children! Every day without FPL is a precious gift from heaven - and you spurn it, resent it!
[Even now that FPL's been relaunched, we still have three glorious weeks of indolence to enjoy before the Premier League season kicks off again....]
(In Hesse's novel, the protagonist Siddhartha is an Indian nobleman and younger contemporary of the Buddha, who embarks on a lifelong quest for spiritual enlightenment, mirroring key elements of Buddhist belief, but striving to attain these insights independently, rather than being guided by external teachings.
The wealthy merchant Kamaswami, when a young, itinerant Siddhartha seeks employment with him, challenges him to list his capablilities or accomplishinments that might be useful to him; and he replies with the line above - which I've always thought was rather cool.
There's a very good - rather oneiric - 1972 film adaptation, starring the great Indian actor Shashi Kapoor in the title role.
The pithy triplet is repeated online in different orders, so my rendition above may not be canonical. I'm probably recalling - or misrecalling! - the version in the film. )
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