Quotes About Patience

Lo primero que necesitamos para ir domando la voluntad es ser capaces de renunciar a la satisfacción que nos produce lo urgente, lo que pide paso sin más.

La voluntad es la capacidad para hacer algo valioso y que cuesta sin tener un resultado inmediato. Es la capacidad para aplazar la recompensa haciendo lo que se debe. Educar la voluntad es aprender a renunciar a las satisfacciones inmediatas y a valorar y sopesar las cosas antes de actuar. Se trata de un largo proceso que empieza en la infancia y que tiene unos resultados concretos en la adolescencia. Ni

a la muerte le sienta bien la tristeza leve de una severa espera.

Por mucha tendencia o vocación de esperador que tenga, y por mucha fibra heroica que habite en él, la espera de la llegada del ascensor se le hace infinita.

Considera que la espera es la condición esencial del ser humano y a veces actúa en consonancia con esto.

When one spends a long time alone in the Frankfurt airport, one goes crazy at receiving even the tiniest crumbs of affection.

la vida es corta pero el día largo

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a singe hope.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Ciò che una volta presente non ci turba, stoltamente atteso ci fa impazzire.

Stay calm and pedal on

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

El futuro ni depende enteramente de nosotros ni tampoco nos es totalmente ajeno, de modo que no debemos esperarlo como si hubiera de venir infaliblemente ni tampoco desesperarnos como si no hubiera de venir nunca.

To hurry is to neglect that environment and to be conscious only of something that is still out of sight down the road, or of mere obstacles, or solely of oneself

This challenge did not come to stay. "It came to pass. "No matter how real or substantial it seemed to be, it would pass away, just as every other undesirable situation before it had done. It had come to bring me something I needed for my own growth. But now it would pass on into oblivion.