Quotes About Patience

Mots exagérés pour dire qu'il est des réclusions mineures où l'on passe finalement un temps très long avant de s'en libérer. Car c'est bien un acte de volonté subit qui décide du terme et l'on se demande pourquoi on ne s'en est pas délivré plus tôt.

Nous sommes les escargots des sommets. (p. 18)

Le bestie sanno il tempo in tempo, quando serve saperlo. Pensarci prima è rovina di uomini e non prepara alla prontezza.

Quando un uomo si ferma a guardare le nuvole, vede scorrere il tempo oltre di lui, un vento che scavalca. Allora c'è da rimettersi in piedi e riacciuffarlo.

Fortuna, ma ci sono fortune che vanno in braccio al primo che incontrano, fortune puttane che piantano subito e vanno col prossimo e invece ci sono fortune sagge che spiano una persona e la collaudano lentamente

if you're dealing with monkeys, you got to expect some wrenches.....

it is nevertheless worth noticing that there is a future to which we may look ahead. But whether we look or not, it will come, it will come!

She pats my knee. I'm going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won't ever be content with someone if you can't learn how to be content by yourself first.

Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

Ay Dios Mío Santo, help me make it through their puberties!

Stand still. But not like Lot's wife." (From a talk on her book *Seeking God, Seeking Life*, (YouTube video), St Paul's, London, May 19, 2013)

want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon. However, it is not often that you have

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

Covenantally binding ourselves (behaving!) includes commitment to the as-yet undiscovered reality, love, patience, humility, listening beyond our previously conceived categories, personal openness, and embracing with hope the half-understood promise of the real, to the end of communion and . . . friendship. All knowing is, at least paradigmatically, knowing whom.

I didn't know you could waste a whole day over dressmaking. The next morning I learned that you can waste another day over the same stupid dresses.

By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, "My son, you must not marry this girl. I don't care how beautiful she is, she'll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, "You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Thirty miles is a long way, even by car, and on foot it's a thousand times more, especially for a dog, whose step is like a quarter of a human's.

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

As we've said, those people weren't "born this way" (if they were, what use would they be as examples for us?). Rather, they were brave enough and patient enough to slowly develop themselves, to till the fertile soil of their own minds over time.

The doormat version of idiot compassion always involves allowing ourselves to feel walked all over in the name of idealizing what it means to be patient with another person's aggressive behavior. It's an unwillingness to face the uncomfortable truth that it's okay to feel angry and irritated.

Intelligence seems not to originate from some outlandish formula, but rather from the patient, almost brute force use of simple, straightforward algorithms. It