Quotes About Patience

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliance to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of powerful men like Lord Vader.

Hang on a minute, Mara said, stepping away from the viewport and her tantalizingly brief vision of the future. As Luke had said, this was the present. The future would take care of itself. I'll come with you.

each other for a whole month; and we

Sometimes, it's hard to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel when you're knee deep in quicksand.

If I ask, will you answer? It's your problem. A deep deep problem. I have no right to know. I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without it getting dirty. So I'll wait. When you want to talk, when you think it's okay to talk, talk to me. Until that time, I'll wait." - Rukia Kuchiki

You're young, therefore you're easy to anger. You're angry, therefore your heart is shaken. Your heart is shaken, therefore your blade is dull." - Grand Fisher

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity.

He notes that it remains the cancer of the mental health world: We are close to finding a cure, but not close enough for those who do not respond quickly to drugs or therapy.

We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water

every sailor needs someone to return to, that every woman needs someone to wait for.

Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can?for a time. But not a very long time.

i am the most even-tempered man i know,' clark protested. 'right, no one's ever lived long enough for you to get really mad. they're dead by the time you're mildly annoyed.

And then I realized it was what the Arabs call inshallah: "It is not mine to do; it's mine to do the best I can; it's going to happen according to God's

When you dealt with explosives, you didn't rush and you didn't take chances.

Wouldn't it be wonderful, wouldn't it be absolutely fucking grand if Life somehow contrived to let five minutes go by without dumping some new and incrementally horrible load of shit on my head from a great height?

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

despair is ultimately destructive to oneself and a burden to others; and that if one persists in it, the gods will sooner or later lose patience and give one something to really despair about.

You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. —Franz Kafka

I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable.

Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.