Quotes About Patience

Now that … my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you!

GidiÅŸat böyle dedi. Yaln?zca gereksinim duyduklar?n? al. Geyik al?yorsan, en iyisini alma. En küçük ve en yavaÅŸ olan?n? seç, o zaman geyik daha güçlü olur ve her zaman sana et verir. Pa-koh (panter) bunu biliyor. Sen de bilmelisin!

Stop," cried the traveler. "What God does is well done. Do not claim to know more than He. God has given organs to this frail creature; let them develop and grow strong by exercise, use, experience, and liberty.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

If women really want a relationship to last, all they have to do is never sleep with us and we will happily spend the rest of our lives chasing them.

Ne boji se priroda praznine, nego nada.

Iadul dureaz? o or? ?i trei sferturi. Cartea de fa?? la fel.

El amor dura lo que tiene que durar, me da lo mismo. Pero si quieres que dure, creo que es necesario aprender a aburrirse. Hay que encontrar a la persona con la que tengas ganas de aburrirte.

Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints…

Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.

The illusion of speed is the belief that it saves time. It looks simple at first sight: finish something in two hours instead of three, gain an hour. It's an abstract calculation, though, done as if each hour of the day were like an hour on the clock, absolutely equal. But haste and speed accelerate time, which passes more quickly, and two hours of hurry shorten a day. Every minute is torn apart by being segmented, stuffed to bursting. You can pile a mountain of things into an hour.

When you are on foot, to arrive you must walk.

When you hurry, time is filled to bursting, like a badly-arranged drawer in which you have stuffed different things without any attempt at order.

You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

No man can bear a child's cross.

No les acontece a muchos hombres hallar en la realidad, al alcance de su vista, ese mundo que la mayoría no descubre más que en sí mismos, cuando tienen el valor y la paciencia de acordarse.

Esta espera de la carta desconocida y que sobrevive a todo, ¡qué signo es de que la esperanza no se ha perdido y de que queda siempre entre nosotros esa semilla!

Incluso los mejores no aprender a amar por sí solos. Para pasar de largo ante los ridículos, los vicios y, sobre todo, la estupidez de los seres, es necesario poseer un secreto de amor que el mundo no conozca. Mientras ese secreto no sea hallado, se cambiarán en vano las condiciones humanas.

The idea precedes everything, the rest is only attentive patience, weaving, a game of shuttles; for it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe

Je suis content que tu aies trouvé ton livre, Steve. Tout le monde y arrive, un jour ou l'autre. Il faut parfois en lire dix, cent ou mille, mais on finit toujours par le dénicher. Enfin, presque toujours. Certains abandonnent avant de l'avoir trouvé, malheureusement...

Regarde les lions: ils chassent quand ils ont faim, bon, mais le reste du temps ils dorment, ils bâillent, ils regardent les couchers de soleil et les cameramen du National Geographic, et ils n'ont pas l'air de s'ennuyer.

Many people see happiness only in their future.