Quotes About Patience

Danielle wasn't sure if she was patient and wise, or if she was a tragedy unfolding slowly, one hot summer day at a time.

you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet.

Days dragged on in this town like they were getting paid by the minute.

I sometimes think we should go back to the old days, when there was proper courtship, when people walked out together for weeks and weeks before anything happened. At least then you know something about each other, you have some solid ground to put your feet on. We're all so impatient now, we just want to get to the main action.

It was 4:00 p.m. Chris would be in his car, she was pretty certain, watching Boss Man pull out of the parking lot. He would wait a few seconds to be certain the

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out exactly how we feel, stop deciding what we want and just see what happens.

i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

equanimity offers a great inner resource: a sense of nonreactivity, of patience and acceptance.

We each have our unique ways of responding to life's challenges, and we need to respect our own needs, temperament, and timing.

Taking our hands off the controls and pausing is an opportunity to clearly see the wants and fears that are driving us.... Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so.

Living in the future creates the illusion that we are managing our life and steels us against personal failure.

There are 7 days in a week but someday isn't one of them.

Nothing is ever final" is a lesson in humility; "no final judgment should be passed" is a promise of hope. The

On marche très vite alors qu'on voudrait que le chemin n'eût jamais de fin. Et le chemin a pris fin.

As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

It is while tracking that the hunter exhibits his true skill.

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just because mindfulness is simple does not mean that it is easy.

Clinging to a problem does not make it disappear, but rather just makes it worse, aggravating the problem and leading to frustration and anger in relation to the problem and even in relation to ourselves.

Realizing that this problem is only temporary, like all things, and it too will pass, gives us more space to find ways to resolve it.

The only people who come close to annoying me as much as left-laners are cart-hogs, shoppers who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and wander a few feet away, where they stand with their mouths open staring stupefied at the shelves as if they've never seen food before. I

You have to believe you deserve what you want, that it's yours. That's the most important part of it all. If you don't believe you deserve it, if you wait for someone to hand what you want to you, then you'll be waiting your whole life for things to happen, and they won't.