Psalm 131:2

"To wait is to learn the spiritual grace of detachment, the freedom of desire. Not the absence of desire, but desire at rest."

"St. John of the Cross lamented that 'the desires weary and fatigue the soul; for they are like restless and discontented children, who are ever demanding this or that from their mother, and are never contented.'"

"Detachment is coming to the place where those demanding children are at peace. As King David said,

I have stilled and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me. (Psalm 131:2)

"Such a beautiful picture, a young one leaning against her mother's breast, There is no fussing, no insistent tears. She has learned to wait."

-John Eldredge (The Journey of Desire)