Quotes About Patience

Affirmation for Today: I am strong enough to refrain from killing any or all members of my family.

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

Their kisses had gone on and on—cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds . . . minutes . . . hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.

cómo sabes cuándo es correcto? —Hay que dar tiempo al tiempo y conocer bien a la otra persona.

Qué voy a hacer contigo? —Tengo una idea, pero a lo mejor no te gusta. —Dime. —¿Podríamos... no sé exactamente cuánto tiempo lleva recuperarse, pero... cuando lo hagas...? —¿Estás intentando decir que te gustaría repetir? —Sí. —Está bien, cariño. —Él sonrió, pero parecía preocupado—. Supongo que alguien que ha esperado tanto, tiene que recuperar el tiempo perdido.

No siempre llega antes quien más corre.

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew them seven times.

There is not one wide happiness that reaches us all at the same time.

She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany.

I think you mustn't wonder that. At least not yet. Perhaps never.

It is funny how time goes so slow one day, sometimes for a whole season or a whole year, and then it's like a fast-forward button is pressed, and where did time go? How could you move no closer to the life you dreamed for yourself?

I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.

here?" "John says that all things work for the best," Wealthy said with a faint smile. It was something she had forgotten lately. "I do hope he's right.

Sit," Mrs. Adair said gently. "Both of you, rest. The Lord knows what happened and why. And soon, I trust, so shall

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255

There is no timetable for grief," said Bronwen Morgan. "Grief isn't a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief's time is beyond time, and time itself … isn't very important.

An offspring's sigh of tedium is inaudible to all human ears except a parent's. Boring your child who, at one point in his or her life, found you unspeakably delightful is humbling.

Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.

Sometimes it takes a long, long time before we can glean enrichment from the deprivation and suffering which has baffled and overwhelmed us. —Mildred Tengbom

Living is really hard, but death is forever. We're all going to die eventually, so what's your rush' Even if you think committing suicide will make you seem tragic and romantic and cool, you'll never know what happened anyway. Don't you want to know how your life was supposed to turn out. Wouldn't you like to see what you're made of?