Quotes About Patience

But do you enjoy it?" Annie asked. Raven stared at Annie's reflection in the mirror. "I don't hate it," Raven said. "You spend enough time with anything, that's all you can really ask for.

Up to this point, all I knew were beaten paths, tattooed with footprints, and I had come to the understanding that they were not much fun to travel because so many people were waiting for you at the end, wondering what took you so long.

A skilled surgeon knows that cuts have to be made in order to operate, but the skilled surgeon also knows that the cuts are temporary and will heal. The end result of the operation is worth the initial pain, and the patient should heal to a better state than they were in before the surgery.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Beyond ?abr there is yet another stage of submission to and satisfaction with the Will of Allah; and that is the core of ri??' bi'l-qa??'. Try to focus your vision on that. Attempt to perceive the goodness which Allah has placed for you in any apparently adverse situation. For

To read all these stories and more, you will have to wait till I am dead and a suicidal publisher decides to print them.

If thou must make a gold coin true Let thy mint these rules pursue. In the forge of continence Let the goldsmith be a man of patience, His tools be made of knowledge, His anvil made of reason;

Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Sam has rolled to his side, waiting patiently for Linna to remember to scratch him. Live forever, she thinks, and wills his twisted spine and legs straight and well.

Sometimes you just need to have faith in God and believe that everything will turn out for the best".

Life isn't fair; it's life," she said softly, confidently. "Everybody has times when they feel like God's just not there. But he's always there, always bringing you closer to him,

The Lord is constantly teaching us. I know He has me in His right pocket and I'm very safe there. I love to see Him really work in my life, and I know He'll use me in His due time.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

Our frustration with others is always greatest when we're frustrated with ourselves