Quotes About Patience

One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life.

If you take good care of the present, there is no need to worry about the future.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.

He who judges a situation impulsively is not righteous.

Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Whisper words of wisdom, Let it Be.

Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.

Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.

O my poor words, bear with me.

Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant, The burning lake turns into a forest pool, The fire subsides into rings of water, A sunlit silence.

Snail, snail, glister me forward, Bird, soft-sigh me home, Worm, be with me. This is my hard time.

O my poor words, bear with me. — Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke , ed. David Wagoner (Copper Canyon Press November 1, 2006)

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

Much of poetry is an anguished waiting." — Theodore Roethke

Things grow for me in the garden, little green promises that, in good time, are kept: I will give you tomatoes, I promise you corn. People do not always keep their promises, even when you tend their soil.

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets." The former is easy enough, and is what even an accomplished loafer has to go through before he reaches the latter and more blissful state. It takes years of practice to relax sufficiently to be able to "just set." I'd learned it years ago. But

And let the days go by, and let the time pass, and huddle beneath your impenetrable integument, and wait, and wait, and every once in a long while you will have that moment of lonely consciousness when there is no one around to see; and then it may burst from you and you may dance, or cry, or twist the hair on your head till your eyeballs blaze, or do any of the other things your so unfashionable nature thirstily demands.

Hasta la soledad tiene un límite para quienes están suficientemente solos durante suficiente tiempo

If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

here is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.