Quotes About Patience

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon.

A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with time as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

some things you endure for a reason

And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.

ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die. But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.

Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I'm just waiting for you!

Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?' Rose chuckled. But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

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. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of love.

Why was he so quiet? To see if you would listen

You cannot talk when you first arrive. It helps you to listen.

There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.

There was a sermon where he brought a squash and a piece of wood, then slammed each with a knife to show that things which grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized that was the whole point.

Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. -Morrie-

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... Love comes when it comes.

Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer.

Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." " What's that?" "Hope.

But the world does not cater to our timing.