Quotes About Patience

It wasn't about finding the right answer; it was about patience and diligence. I surrendered to the process, ascribing the same importance to this work as to anything else I did.

Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn't come until later.

I'm smart 1 day out of 30, but I never know which day it will be so I have to sit patiently, feeling like an ignoramus most of the time.

Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.

I gathered his words like an old woman who picks up spilled beads, and his slowness gave me opportunity to consider the light and color and life in each.

It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long.

We said we'd walk together baby come what may That come the twilight should we lose our way If as we're walkin' a hand should slip free I'll wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me —Bruce Springsteen

She had read the same sentence over and over, and each time she lifted her eyes to look at Graham, he was always there, looking back at her. The wait had seemed endless to her, but finally the lights blinked off and on several times, and the store began to empty out.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Sometimes things of magnitude settle over you with excruciating slowness. Say you break your ankle and don't feel it hurting till you've walked another block.

If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be.

Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.

Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit.

You're looking for a reason, she said. And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That's what I've been trying to do.

There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

When you're waiting, you're not doing nothing. You're doing the most important something there is. You're allowing your soul to grow up. If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be.