Quotes About Patience

The Lord never deserts His children. Yet sometimes, like a parent teaching a toddler to walk, He steps back and holds out His arms to see if we can come to Him on our own, thus enhancing our own abilities and understanding.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Don't flee from boredom. Go all the way into it; go all the way through the bottom of boredom!

actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment. One of them is the precious science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurely, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort. Such knowledge floods the soul unseen with a soundless tidal wave of deepening thought.

Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

Some day I'll come back and enjoy this place, he promised himself. And smiled to himself, knowing only too well that life had a way of never giving you the time to come back.

Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man's language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.

It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn't feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn't matter. I don't have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

Trishiffany said. "And your child was the 129,285,656,702nd." "Do you know how many hours I spent sneaking around here in the middle

Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Don't read too fast," she said.

You are killing me, fish...

The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.

One can never wait too long.

I can't deal with angry people until after I've had my morning coffee.

You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock.

Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.

Patience, he would have said. When stones start rolling down a slope, it's important not to start running after them right away. Stay where you are and watch them rolling, see where they come to a stop. That's what he would have said.

Neither you nor I believe in miracles. If they happen, they happen. But believing in them, expecting them – that's nothing more than wasting the time alloted to you.

Sólo después de que florezca el roble, que es el último en primavera, despierta el fresno. Me lo imagino como el pastor de los demás árboles, vigilando que las hojas de todos estén verdes antes de florecer él.

Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.