Quotes About Patience

He was waiting, and the waiting was painful. Not because he didn't know how to wait, but because he didn't know what he was waiting for.

Time was as thin as hope.

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.

But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

Couples and singles made a poor mix, and most of their friends had been couples. He hadn't done much to foster continuing friendships in any case, spending most of his time involved with his work and with his private, inviolate grief. He was not such good company anymore, and only Miles had had the patience and the perseverance to stay with him.

Am I missing something? Everything. But I find no fault in you for that. Why should you see so clearly in a matter of minutes what I have lived with for years? It will not be easy for you now or later. It will never be easy. But it will be important. It will matter.

They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.

P?zeau Nestemata ca pe lac?tul propriilor c?tuÈ™e, în aÈ™teptarea vremurilor când se va fi aflat o cheie care s? le desferece.

Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.

My mother always said that if you predicted rain long enough, sooner or later you would get wet and be proven right.

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

Sometimes letting out the anger is an even more grievous mistake than holding it in.

LONG AFTER DARK ALEX WAS STILL WAITING. He worried that they might have hatched some new plan. A thousand different terrors ran through his mind as he waited. As the night wore on, there might have hatched some new plan. A thousand different terrors ran through his mind as he waited. As the night wore on, there was nothing he could do but wait.

A lot of people merely marked time until a holiday, until they could go on vacation, until they could retire, always waiting for their life to begin.

Sometimes doing what you would most like to do can be the very worst thing to do. Sometimes to accomplish what you want in the end, you have to hold back in the beginning. - Zedd (Pg.161)

He felt as if he were standing in quicksand, but he had lived with Zedd too long to dismiss the things he said simply because they were hard to fathom

I thought you said you were trying to quit swearing! Go to hell, Paulette. I will. As soon as I can have a whole week where no crazy or ridiculous or unbelievable shi*t happens an my mind is calm long enough to remember how to think.

This is not the way I dreamed it. This is not what I had hope for, what I asked for. I want to skip this part. I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Albert grunted. Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions? Mort thought for a moment. No, he said eventually, what? There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

The turtle moves.

Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time, said Tiffany, but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.