Quotes About Patience

Ahora ve despacio, chico. A la naturaleza no le gustan las prisas. —Sí, padre

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.

Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.

The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.

Don't split. Sticking it out can mean the difference between a rough time and an utter failure.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

It's not so much that you've lost your faith in time as that time has lost its faith in you

Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?

That's the way it is with God, don't you reckon? He always around somewheres, if you can see His face or not. He's out there watching through the dark. Sometimes that's got to be enough, I suppose. Knowing He sees us even if we can't see Him back." -- Levi Snow

DURATION OF SILENCE

Those who look to parenthood as a solution to their discontent will typically find that the rewards, though real, are some years in the future.

Who knows what the future holds? Only the One God," explained Aidan. "You just live the little bit of life that you can see in front of you. You live it well. And that gets you ready for whatever unfolds next.

all the bad things that had happened to him were necessary if the intended outcome was to occur.

That is why three of the four matriarchs found themselves unable to conceive other than by a miracle.

not to a baby when

If she'd repeatedly fallen over while crossing soft ground, you could have sewn a crop of beans in the chin-holes she left behind.

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.

Patience is the prime virtue. If you hurry, you will fail. And failure is painful. You must always relax and concentrate on the task in hand.

The girl was silent too, grim- faced, straight-backed. She did not try to hurry. There was no need. Nothing that had happened could be undone.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

Don't set your wit against a child.

I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?