Quotes About Patience

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

Trying to be patient with people without loving them is like expecting there to be heat without actually lighting the torch.

Between God's promises in our life and the palace of our divine purpose is always the process that molds us into the person we need to be to stay seated in the palace.

To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.

Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.

Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability—a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions.

sometimes our hearts just need time to accept what are heads already know

Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a whole. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

Sometimes it takes a few years before you understand what you're worth. And who's worth your time.

She gave another eye roll and glided away. My admiration for my sister grew. One thing to have children...another to keep them when they hit adolescence.

My blood pressure surges. Folks, unless you've walked the walk, never tell a widow it's time she moved on.

I like my face. I have a few crow's-feet, sure. My skin's not as elastic as it used to be… I gained a lot of weight when I was pregnant, as one tends to do with three babies inside, and it shows. But this is the face of a woman who's been through a lot, a woman who has lost a lot and held on to a lot, too. This is the face my daughters love, the face they look to for comfort and unconditional love, for patience. For wisdom. For guidance.

Maybe love isn't just a bouquest of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

I'm going to email you every week and invite you out for dinner, and you can turn me down as much as you want, but when you're ready, we'll go somewhere fabulous with huge drinks, my treat. And you can tell me about him, or we can talk about bridezillas or gossip or go to a movie. We can talk now if you want, or we can just get down to work." I

Hell is not other people. Hell is the DMV.

Te amo —repitió él. —Ya era hora —susurró ella

In a way, Emerson's list taught me something I hadn't anticipated. You didn't get everything in life. I'd always thought if you worked hard enough and tried to be your best self, the universe would listen. But it didn't always. As my grandfather used to say, God was not a grocer; you didn't hand him a list and have him go through it, checking off everything you'd asked for. You could be fulfilled just the same...and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while.

the time between almost and right away...

Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

James glanced at his watch. Fifteen minutes had passed. This felt longer than a problematic colonoscopy.

Matthew, sometimes we just have to hope that things work out, because being absolutely sure of something . . . it doesn't happen a lot.

Child, the healing of wounds takes time, and there is no better salve than gardening