Quotes About Patience

Some things work out when you just let them be what they are.

Good evening, Miss Tramell." The doorman accompanied the greeting with a tap of his fingers to the brim of his hat and waited patiently while I swiped my debit card. When I'd finished paying, I accepted his help out of the back of the cab and felt his gaze slide discreetly over my tearstained face.

I dropped my pencil onto the notepad I'd been scribbling in, then sat back on the couch and curled my legs onto the cushion. It was rolling past nine o'clock and I hadn't heard from Gideon yet. I didn't know if that was a good or bad sign, considering he'd had an appointment with Dr. Petersen earlier.

I wait and ache.

I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

Waiting for the right wonderful person is so much more important than getting the outer comforts of marriage at an early age.

I can't take things as they come, or make them come as I choose.

Si uno no espera nada de alguien nunca se siente desilusionado.

Never try to knock on rotten wood.

I shall doggedly work, wait and expect the minimum.

Now I know how people can live without books, without college. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth.

I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Você nunca se decepciona quando não espera nada de alguém.

If I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, luminous course of the second hand and the minute hand and the hour hand of the bedside clock through their circles and semicircles, every night for seven nights, without missing a second, or a minute, or an hour.

Well, after this Racine paper, this Ronsard-purgatory, this Sophocles, I shall write: letters and prose and poetry, toward the end of the week; I must be stoic till then.

Listen and shut up, oh, ye of little faith.

It Will Come. If I Work.

It influenced my life that I did not find content immediately and easily - - and now I am I because of that.

The future is what matters because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present.

it is something even to live through hours of obligation now, without screaming: gently, gently, stoic one.

And to wait, taut, smiling, till evening, and the time after eight o'clock, again, to the time you go to bed, which is yours, which is brief and private.

No esperes a comprar bienes inmuebles; compra bienes inmuebles y espera».

Practice is called practice because it is not meant to be perfect.