Quotes About Patience

No se puede juzgar apresuradamente a nadie. Es preciso ser justo. Muchas vidas se han arruinado por juzgar apresuradamente.

Cuando somos impacientes, provocamos sufrimiento en nosotros mismos y en los demás. Nos precipitamos y juzgamos con imprudencia, actuamos sin tener en consideración las consecuencias de lo que hacemos. Nuestras elecciones son forzadas y, a menudo, incorrectas; y el precio que pagamos por ellas, elevado.

Con el amor y la comprensión llega la perspectiva de la paciencia infinita. ¿De qué sirve tener prisa? De todas maneras, aunque tú no lo veas así, el tiempo no existe. Cuando no vives en el presente y te dejas absorber por el pasado o te preocupas por el futuro, te apenas y te afliges a ti mismo. El tiempo también es una ilusión. Incluso en el mundo tridimensional, el futuro es sólo un sistema de probabilidades. Entonces, ¿por qué te preocupas?

Patience and timing… everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see it, but rather in lessons that are learned.

Paciencia y tiempo... todo llega a su debido tiempo. No se puede apresurar una vida, no se puede resolver según un plan, como tanta gente quiere. Debemos aceptar lo que nos sobreviene en un momento dado y no pedir más. Pero la vida es infinita; jamás morimos; jamás nacimos, en realidad. Sólo pasamos por diferentes fases. No hay final. Los humanos tienen muchas dimensiones. Pero el tiempo no es como lo vemos, sino lecciones que hay que aprender.

I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight nor the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.

Patience and timing . . . everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned."1

For example, we may have already mastered the course in compassion and charity, but we may only be beginners when it comes to patience or forgiveness. We may be graduate students in faith and hope, but kindergartners in anger or non-violence.

Todo es amor... todo es amor. Con el amor llega la comprensión. Con la comprensión llega la paciencia. Y entonces el tiempo se detiene. Y todo es ahora.» Comprendí al instante la autenticidad de estos pensamientos. La realidad es el presente. Morar en el pasado o en el futuro es insano y doloroso. La paciencia detiene el tiempo. El amor de Dios lo es todo.

It takes a long time to write something that is easy to read.

The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret.

Success is a fickle mistress. If you go chasing her, she will ignore you. If you leave her alone and just go about your business, she might come looking for you.

And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now and it would only be a question of waiting for it all to end and hoping for better things in the next world. But that was silly, it was never too late.

Maybe, she thought, it was because it was still too new. It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

Maybe there was nothing to be done but wait out his adolescence, and hope that at the end of it all he might be a person who would want to talk to you.

This is what an artist is, she thought. This is the temperament you need to spend a whole day tinkering with a sentence, making sure that both the meaning and the music are right; to spend three or seven or ten years working on a book.

If you treat what you value most in life more like a garden and less like a vending machine, you'll probably be happier. (from You Oughta Know By Now)

Maybe the play wasn't about miracles. No, maybe it was about the passage of time, and the need for patience, and the ability to forgive. Maybe Shakespeare was saying that even in a world where miracles can happen, there's still going to pain, and lost, and regret. Because sometimes people die and you can't bring them back. That's what life is Joseph realized, miracles and sadness, side by side.

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

Maybe the play wasn't about miracles. No, maybe it was about the passage of time, and the need for patience, and the ability to forgive. Maybe Shakespeare was saying that even in a world where miracles can happen, there's still going to be pain, and loss, and regret. Because sometimes people die and you can't bring them back. That's what life is Joseph realized, miracles and sadness, side by side.

Your path for me has been perfect! All your promises have proven true.

34So don't be impatient for the Lord to act; keep moving forward steadily in his ways, and he will exalt you at the right time.h And when he does, you will possess every promise, including your full inheritance. You'll watch with your own eyes and see the wicked lose everything.

But rather, his "delay" simply reveals his loving patience toward you, because he does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance.k

I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with my eyes as your guide. So don't make it difficult; don't be stubborn when I take you where you've not been before. Don't make me tug you and pull you along.