Quotes About Patience

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit.

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.

Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him.

The Bible says, "A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Sam had a child's faith in the healing power of the morning, she thought later, as she lay sleepless at his side; he believed that a good night's sleep could iron out all the accumulated wrinkles of the day. She resented his ability to fall asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow while she tossed restlessly in bed; his even breathing was an affront to her wakefulness.

Their evenings were interminable; their Sundays were like their evenings.

A man couldn't jump higher than himself, she pointed out to me. And he couldn't help it if he was a "zoodnik"; one so annoying, he made you itch.

I shoulder my pack and hit the trail, realizing I'm being called to a memory deeper than my own, to a language my body has known all along. The desert speaks- out of lifetimes of patience and pain-with a subtle but insistent voice. My role in the Great Conversation isn't finally to understand, only to listen and love.

I love that you wanted to try. But after we've done everything we can, we have to accept things the way they are and make the most of what we have.

Feelings don't work on a timetable," Claudia said gently. "Sometimes it takes five years for a couple to figure things out, like it did with Mia and Ford. Sometimes it takes fifteen or twenty years, like it did for Rafe and Brooke. And sometimes, it only takes a few seconds to fall at first glance...and to feel deep inside your heart that you've found something special that will last forever.

What do you say to a dog before he eats?

Keeping this picture on my desk reminds me that nothing is ever too far gone to be treated right.

four full days before his next start." Vicki's heart stilled in her chest as she watched the

Let us suffer absurdities, for this is only to suffer one another.

What can be wrong?" they asked the doctor and their friends and themselves. "Oh, nothing but colic, it usually is just colic." So the formula was changed, and that did work for a time. But only for a time. It had to be changed again and yet again. Then the doctor himself began to seem uncertain.…

My dad had once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it leads.

and I gave him the police stare. The aim of the stare is to convey cynicism combined with weary patience. I know you're about to lie to me but because I am a hugely magnanimous agent of state power, I'm willing to give you a moment to think better of it.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts 'A Shadow Passes' (1919)

There's nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

Here is a bit of man's wisdom for you – when you think things can't get worse, they usually do.

As Martin noted, to the detectives conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about - especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police.

Equipment for ghost hunters: thermal underwear, very important; warm coat; thermos flask; patience; ghost.

So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So