Quotes About Patience

I've always believed that when things seem about as bad as they can get, there's usually something good that comes out of it. You just have to wait to understand what it is.

Well, don't worry about it too much, princess. Let ice-boy cool off for the night and then try to talk to him tomorrow. He wont stay angry with you too long, I bet. Ash isn't one to hold a grudge. '' ''What are you talking about? He's held a grudge against you for centuries!'' ''Oh, right.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.

I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.

Don't build a bridge into thin air.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.

Every man has a weakness!" he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. ... "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.

Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.

So I carried on, waiting for what ever was to come, with or without God's help

Only three weeks. Is that enough time to fix a person?

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.

Life doesn't give you things you can't handle, does it?

Being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances.

You accept that people are the way they are. There's nothing you can do about it, except learn ways to minimize the damage they can do to you. It's like rain. We don't feel a need to forgive the sky for raining on a day when we really wanted sunshine, do we? No. We might be upset and disappointed, but the need to forgive never enters our mind.

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

God help me keep me moving somehow Don't let me start wishing I was with him now I've made it this far without crying a single tear I'd sure hate to break down here

Not much else to do in there. There's no TV.

Our mother has taken up knitting since she got sick but doesn't knit well. We keep waiting to see a sweater, even a glove, but she knits without projects in mind, tearing things out to begin again. Sometimes she puts the knitting down and looks out the window, as if there were something in the dark to see.