Quotes About Patience

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

the knitting acted like some kind of mood drug on her, as she conversed with uncharacteristic levity and patience with a voice she was hearing in her head.

Esperar, dicen. El qué no importa. Por eso de pie es conveniente. En otra posición esperar acorta la esperanza

you have to play it out sometimes.

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

There are times to think and times to lie fallow

Least said soonest meanded

The queen is ... busy, Wybert said. When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine. He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door. So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.

Maybe I hadn't been a big dating success because I was a boring person, but possibly it had been because I had limited tolerance for all this preliminary maneuvering and signal reading. - Aurora

I think forgiveness doesn't happen overnight. I think it comes in increments. When someone has made your life hell, maybe you have to recover from the fear and anger first? Before you start working on the other thing.

No, I don't think so. There was still plenty of light. I got there at

We both knew there would be new problems to face, but there wasn't any need to talk about future trouble. Trouble always came at its own pace.

You have to keep it so you don't lose anything if he decides he's not interested." Amina was interested in saving face.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." She had explained that that meant that you don't worry about tomorrow, or about things you can't change. I

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

My golf game is lacking big time.

I'm a grounded lad, and I just look forward to see what's going to happen in the future.

To say I wasn't such a hit with the ladies would be a very kind way of putting it. I was a slow burner, shall we say.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

In my two and a half years with the Lakers, I didn't win much games.

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.