Quotes About Patience

She regards Ellie gravely. "You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply...off.

The morning dragged and lasted two years.

My sister actually has a "thinking face." It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.

He will be out there, living his life to the full, when she seems to have put hers perennially on hold.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

gravely. "You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply . . . off.

I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

But if we don't have faith that he can feel better, even get better, then how is he supposed to keep the faith that good things might happen?" Nathan

Tanzie knew Nicky was thinking what she was thinking—that Mum had finally gone mad. But she had read somewhere that mad people were like sleepwalkers—it was best not to disturb them. So she nodded really slowly, like this was all making good sense.

Agnes's expression was briefly wistful. Then she shrugged. "But on the bright side, they are quite old. Maybe some of them will die soon.

It's quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again.

I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years.

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.

Wissen Sie, man kann nicht erzwingen, wiedergeliebt zu werden. Ganz gleich, wie sehr man sich es wünscht. Manchmal hat man einfach den richtigen Zeitpunkt verpasst.

was easy to lose perspective when you'd had no sleep and had been stuck for forty-eight hours with a gastro-intestinally challenged man and a bathroom with deeply inadequate soundproofing.

ha llevado un tiempo encontrar tu camino, nada más.

Especially when he is plainly unable to move, and is saying, gently, 'Clark. Please. Just come over here. Please,

Those few seconds were the longest I could remember.

Ho come l'impressione che non finirà mai

She said it was like fishing: you had to learn to be quiet and patient to reel in what you wanted.

I listened to her litany of frustration and tried not to think about the time.

I yelled across the noisy concourse. "That'll do!" But he didn't hear me.