Quotes About Patience

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.

Es wäre ihnen ein Leichtes, die Erde zu erobern, sie haben es aber bislang nicht versucht, weil dazu keine Notwendigkeit bestand. Sie lassen die Dinge lieber so, wie sie sind, und ersparen sich die Scherereien.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

Diplomacy was a long game.

In the beginning, his holding could calm the babies, but soon they wanted more motion and wouldn't allow their father to sit down, so Lin had to pace back and forth to stop them from crying......At times he was so miserable that he felt like crying together with his sons, but he controlled himself.

E isto é na verdade a essência da felicidade: poder esperar ansioso pela chegada do dia de amanhã.

Alt sem þú biður um skaltu fá.

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety;

But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to contemplate the debris with some understanding--that is an enviable state of mind.

Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?

Since her childhood her parents and grandparents had taught her that she shouldn't waste her time asking God the whys and hows of life. Those problems were best left for Him to figure out.

Und, bitte, ein bisschen Langeweile - Langeweile in kleinen Dosen ist so gesund.

I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing. Please yourself, said the old duck, and she went away.

Delayed is not forgotten!

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch;

swim. I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing.

Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry

Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.

Oh, you've made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.

A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.