Quotes About Patience

To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood - that is the mark of a person who is capable and truly ready to create a loving relationship that will last and flourish over time.

Expectation has been called "the root of all heartache

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. KAHLIL GIBRAN

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. —Kahlil Gibran

Here, she curled up in a tight ball and waited, purred to her unborn babies. And the trees, the tall and kindly trees, watched over her while she slept, slept the whole night through.

Trees are the arbiters of time, gathering up the hours and days and years, keeping them in their circular rings. They know that forgetting is not so easy. The blackjacks, the water oaks, the sumacs, they all had time to spare, and more.

You go first," Joe told Tory. "Wait in the parking lot for the rest of us." Tory and Sweatshirt set off, threading their way around the tables and the silent customers. Davy grinned at her when she got to the door. She went out into the parking lot, and as the other customers filed out—there were perhaps thirty of them—they formed an orderly double line in front of her. She felt a little like the last baritone in a church choir.

cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee after many days'.

Sometimes you had to wait a little while for the good times to kick in. But when they did, you realized every moment and experience that came before was necessary…necessary to bring you there.

I'm sure your father thought he'd have more time. Hadn't we all.

Isaiah 40:21–31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (vv. 28, 31)

True love cannot be stolen. The right mate is out there for me and will come into my life as soon as I am ready.

Peter and I now refer to this concept as "God's GPS system," and when someone lets us down, we wait with anticipation to see how God is going to readjust our course. It can be a lot of fun to see what amazing journey he will send you on!

Trust in Him and never stop loving. Do that no matter what, even if you can't manage anything else right now.

can't help it! I've held my tongue as long as I dare. Please, Abby. Take a bit more time and reconsider.

from Return of Swamp Thing It's the old impasse: I don't know what to wait for.

The lover of books is a miner, searching for gold.

An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain.

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

He is beyond our reach. We must give him to the Lord and pray the Lord gives him back to us again.

There's a lid for every pot. If you don't get out much, they'll have a wreck in yard. NOTHING will keep your soulmate from you. You have EVERY hope for love.

Don't take away another person's process.

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.

Someday a sentence will come to me, a magic sentence that will undo all that is wrong and make everything right. But until that sentence comes, I say nothing.