Quotes About Patience

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot has many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

Relationships are a never-ending work in progress.

He laid his white right hand tidily atop his white left hand, on the tabletop. Smith smiled appreciatively, but still declined to come out to play. Septimus tapped the toe of his shoe on the floor. Tap-tap-tap: a foot tutting.

He kept wanting to make things happen, when he should have found something that was happening anyway, and just gone along with it.

The wisest man will let himself be swayed By others' wisdom and relax in time.

El que lo piensa todo primero, no escribe nada después.

La muerte trabaja a largo plazo.

Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses . "About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life." "Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output." "Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

once we get it, we lose it and start looking for it all over again. That's why it's called a practice. You never master it.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

an invitation to lunch HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? when I only have 16 cents and 2 packages of yoghurt there's a lesson in that, isn't there like in Chinese poetry when a leaf falls? hold off on the yoghurt till the very last, when everything may improve

I like winning, it just takes longer