Quotes About Patience

Ah, but never underestimate the power of a dismissed dream. I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

I'm prideful enough to say I didn't complain. After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it. I just dived back into the riptide of saving bees.

I pressed Yaltha to set a course, but she persisted in her waiting, saying if the pot was tended long enough, the answer would bubble to the surface.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait. . . .                           So the darkness shall be the light,                           and the stillness the dancing. T. S. ELIOT

Patience is everything. RAINER MARIA RILKE

Pay them no mind and turn the other cheek. Their hearts are boulders and their heads are straw.

I recall a story I love about Jung. One of his students came to him and asked: Professor, could you please tell me the shortest distance to my life goal? Without hesitation Jung replied, The detour.

There is a time to be gentle and a time to be fierce

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

I told Sabe floor-scrubbing was winter

The light came slow and limping, never fully arriving.

The days he was away crept on tiny, unhurried feet.

Bury your writings, so one day they can be found again.

I had come to that irreducible thing, just as I had with my father, and there was nothing to do but accept, to learn to accept, to lie down every night and accept.

Anger is effortless, Lucian. Kindness is hard.

He waited actively—letting go, descending into the depths of his soul, listening, opening himself to change, praying.

So it would happen to me and so it will happen to all who set out to knead their pain and wounds, their hopes and hungers, into bread. Waiting is the yeasting of the human soul.

Miss Sarah never tattled. She tugged the rug over

an acron grew into an oak tree, didn't it?

Why would God plant such deep yearnings in us . . . if they only come to nothing?

take care what you ask, for you shall surely receive it.

One time, that true brass thimble.

We must let life be life.