Quotes About Patience

If you want one year of happiness, grow grain. If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees. If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people.

If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

What, exactly, are you doing?" "Dog-sitting." "Dog-sitting. Are all of your colleagues going out of town at the same time?" My mom was patient as a saint, but she said the word colleague as if it were coated with the oil drained off a can of tuna fish.

Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again.

please find me in the future

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Chesterton wrote this of a "fence or gate erected across a road": The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

While time may not heal, it does give you perspective.

We can't live in whatever.

If you want to birth the miraculous you cannot afford to waste time getting offended. Offense stops you carrying the promise to full term and you never really know what God plans to do with a situation that offends you at first.

Learn how to lean into Jesus. Let Him hold you close until you can hear the rhythm of His heartbeat. Then you will know when to rest, when to run and when to release!

It takes courage to let go—to let go of your way, to let go of being the answer. We are not the answer, my friend; God is. If we live like this, it will mean fruitful labor. Without fruit, what would be the point of living anyway? But the seed has to be buried deep in the ground before the fruit has a chance to take hold. Before the harvest is ready, the fields look bare. All the life is hidden, ready to be revealed, ready to be released—in His time.

we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

Es extraño que, cuando la gente en general muestra menos y menos buena voluntad para esperar por cualquier cosa, estén preparados para esperar por esta única cosa: como si en el cruel mundo moderno fuese lo único en lo que uno puede verdaderamente creer y apoyarse...

Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, That I have wasted half my day And left my work but just begun. A Last Prayer

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

Since I have abandoned the idea of regular lessons, I find that Helen learns much faster. I am convinced that the time spent by the teacher digging out of the child what she has put into him, for the sake of satisfying herself that it has taken root, is so much time thrown away. It's much better, I think, to assume that the child is doing his part, and that the seed you have sown will bear fruit in due time.