Quotes About Patience

As long as Tosh was home, I kept wishing he'd stop crabbing so much. But now I missed his crabbing. I couldn't crab the way he could, and things kept building up in me. All this reserve and discipline and patience and self-sacrifice only wore you down and made you feel real low.

Well, these fifteen years may have seemed short to you but they have been an eternity for me.

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

And what have you been up to? she asked. Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser.

I don't know now why I let her believe otherwise, but someday, perhaps, it will be clear.

Everything will be all right in the end and if it's not all right then it's not the end.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..

Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

It is too late. The old man shook his head. It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be. He smiled. There is a plan, Dor.

If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.

It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.

Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

Please, please, please, please, please...,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

Love is not revenge. It can't be thrown like a rock. And you can't create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.