Quotes About Patience

The advice: "Don't be discouraged—every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Jeez, wait, don't get bent out of shape." But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue. I

His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him.

The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.

waited patiently – years – for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Eight years standing in lines, they say. Six years peeing. Put like that, life was grim.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra.

No time!" I called. There was, alas, all the time in the world now, but it wasn't socially acceptable to say, "No patience!

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

The Hanged Man stopped gesturing and struck a pose: man listening.

Me dijeron: — O te subes al carro o tendrás que empujarlo. Ni me subí ni lo empujé. Me senté en la cuneta y alrededor de mí, a su debido tiempo, brotaron las amapolas.

We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

No matter what we are going through, no matter how long the waiting for answers, of one thing we may be sure. God is faithful. He keeps His promises. What He starts, He finishes, including His perfect work in us.

And Ciel lay down and cried. But Mattie knew the tears would end. And she would sleep. And morning would come.

Where's Amy? Ian put in. Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

If I had to watch Matt take one more bite of that veggie patty, I would have popped a blood vessel.

We are tempted to abandon prayer as a viable exercise and to try getting the results ourselves.

Stay Longer and you will hear the beginning of your death

Es wäre wenig in der Welt unternommen worden, wenn man nur immer auf den Ausgang gesehen hätte.

It's all going the way it's supposed to be going Otherwise, it would be going some other way." —SANDY HARPER, 1978

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.