Quotes About Patience

Weeds could be pulled and new seeds planted, hardened soil tilled and watered to make a fertile bed. Water could be piped in to make an old fountain cascade for the first time. Perhaps my relationship with my mother could be tended in the same way, with care and patience used to rebuild the bedrock of a mother-child bond that had been broken nearly thirty-three years before.

again. Before closing the door I waited

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

By all accounts the Angolan people, the great majority of them poor, illiterate and living in isolated villages or urban slums, carry out their civic responsibilities with great dignity and patience. The two voting days in Angola are another confirmation that anyone who mouths the cliché that Africans are not ready for democracy is simply ignorant of the facts. African politicians, however, are a different matter.

It takes people a while to trust you.

Ein hastiger Renner ist nicht immer das schnellste Pferd.

You just have to take one day at a time. It's a good idea to plan ahead if possible, but you can't always do that because things don't always happen the way you were hoping they would happen. So the most important thing is one day at a time. Tip

It seems as though a happy dispensation from my scientific guiding star allowed me to discover this error myself. But let younger investigators be warned by this example, as they strive impatiently to publish their results after long years of frustration. Let them test their findings doubly and trebly before they regard any interpretation as certain. For often nature reaches her goal by another path, where man cannot see his way

Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting.

Some days, the pines upon my hills Speak nothing of their secret wills, But with an absent smile they say, "Dear, we can't talk to you today."

A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust, Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.

Line upon line, a little here and there, We scrape together wisdom with slow care. Wherefore? To blossom in a churchyard rose, Or to go with the spirit--if it goes?

When parents accept each of their children the way they are, consistently validating their feelings—teaching them with love and patience, helping them understand what appropriate and inappropriate feelings are without judging, and then assist them in shifting their fear-based (inappropriate) feelings to love-based (appropriate) feelings by using the Script, these children will have a much better opportunity to progress through life with more confidence and higher self-esteem.

There, that's better. That should get him talking. But it doesn't. As more time

When you are really in love, when it's the right guy, it's not this hard. Things fall into place; they work. If it's meant to be, it'll work itself out.

Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.

I don't have a list or anything. I just haven't met that person that I want to hold a boom box up for yet.