Quotes About Patience

This was said most artfully by Michelangelo when asked how he created his famous statue of David. He said "it is easy—you just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not." "If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

By that point, it'll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it's too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I've kept looking. I'm still looking.

It doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

You type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.

Un día podría ser sólo de veinticuatro horas, pero aveces sobrevivir a través de uno solo parece tan imposible como escalar el Everest

Pero en serio, ¿cómo se hace para dominar los nervios? No se hace nada. Simplemente te aguantas y al final se pasan.

Don't worry, it doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.

Esta noche no la besaré. O tocaré. O la veré de cerca. Esta noche escucharé. Y eso será suficiente

She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come back.

No duden de que les oye. Es consciente de todo lo que está pasando. Les parecerá que son los médicos o las enfermeras o todos esos cacharros los que llevan la batuta. Pues no. Es ella quien lleva la batuta. Quizá sólo se está tomando su tiempo. Así que hablen con ella. Díganle que se tome todo el tiempo que necesite, pero que vuelva. Que la están esperando.

A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

The operation goes on and on. I'm exhausted by it. I don't know how the doctors have the stamina to keep up. They're standing still, but it seems harder than running a marathon.

Sólo fue un día y sólo ha pasado un año. Pero tal vez un día es suficiente. Tal vez una hora es suficiente. Tal vez el tiempo no tenga nada que ver con ello.

Some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.