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Quotes About Understanding

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?
~ Khalil Gibran
Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.
~ Mila Kunis
Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
~ Selma Diamond
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.
~ Margaret of Valois
Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.
~ Sumiko Tan
Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
~ Allan Lokos
True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.
~ Allan Lokos
Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down
~ Rick Warren
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.
~ Howard Gordon
My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.
~ Alyson Noel
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Science demands patience.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.
~ Cindy McCain
Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!
~ David Brin
Kindness and patience were always called for.
~ Flannery O'Connor
A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.
~ Paulo Coelho
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
when you have the reasons, reason!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is all about adjustments and love is, to be sensitive to the needs of the other than your own needs.
~ Henrietta Newton Martin
It takes patience to make a man - the patience to listen, watch and wait.
~ Ogwo David Emenike