Quotes About Patience

En el prefacio se cita el credo del picapedrero medieval: «Nosotros, cuyo oficio es cortar simples piedras, debemos tener siempre en mente las catedrales».

Quienes quieran ser jóvenes cuando sean viejos, deberán ser viejos cuando sean jóvenes. JOHN RAY, 1670

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years. I think there's an element in the slowness of the execution that adds to the possibility of producing something that will be durable in its expression, that will be considered important five centuries later.

things of great importance have to be slowly produced. I don't believe in speed in artistic production, and that goes with integration.

How do you recognize the face of love? Can love happen in an instant, or can it only grow slowly, bolstered by the course of time? Is it possible that love might be both? A thing that takes forever to reach its true conclusion, made possible by what occurs in no more than the blink of an eye?

For true love comes when it will, not when it is called.

Long years, and so many of them that, one by one, their hopes for a child began to pack their bags and depart.

hope is always the last thing to die.

Remember, makeing your dream come true can take years, so don't give up the day job. Do pray for a lucky break.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

No quiero empezar hasta no estar totalmente seguro'. Esta vaca me daba la tranquilidad de creer que estaba siendo responsable, pero lo que en realidad hizo fue impedirme realizar numerosos proyectos, esperando el momento propicio, o que se dieran todas las condiciones. Ahora me doy cuenta que si espero las circunstancias ideales para hacer las cosas, nunca emprenderé nada nuevo, así que he aprendido a actuar".

Para nada nos vale el apretar el paso al vernos sorprendidos en el medio de la llanura por la tormenta. Nos mojamos lo mismo y nos fatigamos mucho más.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlu mutsuzluÄŸa al??am?yor, inan?n; çünkü çekmekte olduÄŸumdan daha beteri gelemez ba??ma diye avuturuz hep kendimizi, ama sonra, zamanla, beterin beterinin yolumuzu gözlediÄŸini anlamaya baÅŸlar?z.

Don José es un hombre que, a fuerza de tener que aguantar a su mujer, había conseguido llegar a vivir horas enteras, a veces hasta días enteros, sin más que decir, de cuando en cuando, ¡hum!, y al cabo de otro rato, ¡hum!, y así siempre. Era una manera muy discreta de darle a entender a su mujer que era una imbécil, pero son decírselo claro.

El que resiste, gana

Si el tiempo sobra es porque, como es tan poco, no sabemos lo que hacer con él.

We all want to have a happy ending. A lot of times in life, sometimes you do and sometimes it feels like you don't. But you could argue if it is not a happy ending yet, maybe you are just in the middle of your story.

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.