Quotes About Patience

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

He concluded his speech by citing an old parable, of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men to invent a sentence that would apply to all times and in all situations. The wise men returned with "And this too shall pass away.

sickness of hope deferred

If I can leave you with a bit of advice, it is to never stop living and growing and learning, both together and separately. Life comes with only one guarantee - it will not last forever. Embrace every day and know that there is never a shadow so dark that some joy can't find its way through if you let it. Like a quilt, life comes together one piece at a time, and it takes some patience before you can stand back and proclaim it a masterpiece.

Perhaps God is unable to show us our way until we prove to Him that we truly want to follow it.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Word of caution: try not to get so caught up in the action that you shoot the idiot who keeps knocking on your front door! "He should have waited until the commercial break," won't earn you an acquittal for justifiable homicide.

Just for today, I will not be angry. Just for today, I will not worry. Just for today, I will count my many blessings. Just for today, I will do my work honestly, and just for today, I will be kind to every living creature.

Only for some of us, maybe forgiveness is more a journey than a moment in time. Me, I won't be getting there fast.

Plants have lived in the Now for a long time but they still have to have some things explained to them.

The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot.

It takes years to learn to be still.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.

What Do the Trees Know? What do the trees know? To bend when all the wild winds blow. Roots are deep and time is slow. All we grasp we must let go. What do the trees know? Buds can weather ice and snow. Dark gives way to sunlight's glow. Strength and stillness help us grow.

Cuánto tiempo es para siempre? —preguntó Alicia. —A veces sólo un segundo —respondió el Conejo Blanco. LEWIS CARROLL

Antonia introduce las pilas y presiona el botón, cruzando los dedos. Al fin y al cabo, una linterna de dos euros del todo a cien es un acto de fe.

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