Quotes About Patience

One thing being cloned several times got you was patience. She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.

When all around is dark, there is nothing to do but to wait until the eye accustomed to the dark

Gosensh? 1107 (?shik?chi no Mitsune): "Naturally the person who planted it has grown old ... but how tall the pine is now!

Miss Brodie liked to take her leisure over the unfolding of her plans, most of her joy deriving from the preparation

Keep on keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

The Pilgrim's Credo I am not in control. I am not in a hurry. I walk in faith and hope. I greet everyone with peace. I bring back only what God gives me.

Before the Bishop led him out into the courtyard, the Bishop had chalked a cross on the old tunic that had once belonged to one of Bishop Guido's serfs. He felt close to the serf and to the Bishop who had covered him with his own cloak. How fatherly he had been! He had stood with Francis against his father, he had listened to Francis patiently when he had tried to explain about the dreams, the voices, the cross of San Damiano. He had welcomed Francis into the embrace of the Church.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to child bearing

if you are looking someone will change your life, listen no one come and change your life.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

I'll wait for you to find me again. So don't take too long.

Hearing: listening and speaking with patience and under- standing; Encouraging: helping each other; Dating: keeping it fresh and fun; Guarding: agreeing on your boundaries—and enforcing them; Educating: becoming an expert on your mate; Satisfying: meeting each other's needs.

True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know it's true. And He's not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.

We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word.

Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.

She replied, "When you find a bike1 in a birk,2 busk3 there the bauk4.

All right, keep your hair on,' said the old singer, taking his off and adjusting a curl. 'Have another drink'.

If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old, subtract your age from 100 and only grant it that many pages.

That's what Gran always said. I'm too impatient. If you'd ever tried knitting, you'd understand." "I can knit," he said. Okay, that surprised me so much I choked on a sip of sherry. "Seriously?

It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars.

Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.

could have devoured the rest of the valley overnight. But a tree isn't a woman; it doesn't bear a single seed. It scatters as many of them as it can, and hopes for some of them to grow.

There's a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste