Quotes About Patience

Love is a book. You don't skip ahead. You let the story surprise you.

know it's hard, being with the wrong person when the right person is right here.

Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.

Most 'normal' people in America are in the same boat right now, torn between wanting to save the people they're stuck with and wanting to fucking kill them.

Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.

Love is kind, love is patient but also, mainly, above all - yes - Love is perverted.

That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better.

Sometimes I look back and think my whole adult life has been underlined with a feeling of waiting – waiting for something to happen, waiting for circumstances to change, waiting for the right man or the right job or the right shoes-and-clothes-and-haircut to swoop down from above and change me, to infuse me from the outside in with a feeling of well-being and validation and peace of mind

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

One step at a time, Jonathan moved towards his destiny.

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.

she came as near as ever she came to kneeling and thanking God for all good and all ill that He had ever sent upon her. She thought: next time I will wait and learn His purpose before I rail against His harshness. God was teacing her a mighty means of battle, she thought - a force stronger than force; He had whispered a secret in her ear - patience.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

Whoa, cowboy! I don't have phone sex on the first phone call.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up.

There is a time for all seasons," he quoted Scripture. "A time to break down and a time to build up. You've had your time to break down, and now it's your time to build up. Don't punish yourself for what you didn't do.

Before enduring it we will endure it.

Draw, Antonio, draw, said Michelangelo to one of his apprentices. Draw and do not waste time.

Lesson number four: If someone promises to do great things, ask them first for something small, like a bridge or a cow.

Yesterday was one of those days when nothing went right, and I wouldn't have noticed it if it had.

Again time elapsed.

But how am I to live in the meantime?' I wailed. 'Tis for you to decide,' he said. 'You can be her enemy and make yourself miserable by it, or you can endure it. If 'twere me, I'd choose endurance.

You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can't predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.