Quotes About Patience

Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.

I smiled at this because some days I feel as though I've already lived several lifetimes and others as though I haven't lived any kind of life at all, that I'm still waiting for it to start. Or waiting for it to start over.

have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don't we?

Air is free. Someday I will be, too, though not soon enough. There doesn't

Sometimes it's not about right and wrong but now and later. Right now, we are having to put up with a difficult situation that we don't deserve, and it's not right.

Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry." He sighed at this remembrance. "Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . ." His voice fell away.

Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . .

When darkness falls completely and Martin is still not home, I light the stove and place pork cutlets that I rubbed with butter and dried sage into a roasting pan alongside potatoes and carrots so that supper will be ready when he finally returns.

An amaryllis is always waiting to delight and surprise you, even when your world seems cold and dark.

Sometimes it's not about right and wrong but now and later. Right now, we are having to put up with a difficult situation that we don't deserve, and it's not right. But later, when the war is over, we'll remember that we didn't let it break us. . . .

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

I keep driving, slowly, hoping I'll remember where I'm going before I get there. So far I always have. Zen

I have learned some things about pain through my sitting practice. If I move to adjust my posture prematurely, the pain will chase me wherever I go, but if I just sit still when the pain starts, it often goes away, or recedes into the background.

Tip for a parent trying to be the north star to a child desperate for sun: Sometimes it's enough just to shine.

It had raged for seven hours and thirty-eight minutes.

The softest things in the world May be harder than the hardest. Soft water can go through the strongest wall. Knowing this, I know the value of calm. Knowing this, I know the value of patience. Knowing this, I know the value of persistence. —Lao Tzu

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

She took to praying to Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit of her childhood, who had not been a jealous God, she thought, but had waited patiently for her to honor Him again.

Don't try to get him to "see everything" [at an art museum]. You'll give him pictorial indigestion. One sure way of making a person hate apples is to take him to an orchard at 9:00 a.m. and force feed him apples until noon! Indeed, the revulsion may last a lifetime. So it is with pictures and museums.

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Her advice boiled down to a consistent theme: that we all have to learn how to live with uncertainty, because some things are simply out of our control.

Susan Wojciechowski

I did not bother to explain myself. It would have taken months. Years.