Quotes About Patience

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

No need to worry. Time is the remedy for your concerns. It is the key for all things that possess form. True, time does not last forever, but as long as you have it, it is remarkably efficacious. So look forward to the future, my friends.

Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know

No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.

he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. That's the only kind of book I can trust, he said. It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, he added, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

You can't keep counting forever

Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas

You concentrate on waiting for someone and after a certain time it hardly matters what happens anymore. It could be five years or ten years or one month. It's all the same.

You have to wait for tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

I am endowed with the capacity to believe. I believe in all honesty that something will appear to guide me through the darkest and narrowest tunnel, or across the most desolate plain.

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.

Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?.. It is if you become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets it guard down, you can become friends quiet naturally.

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.

You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble.

El destino se lleva siempre su parte y no se retira hasta obtener lo que le corresponde.

If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.