Quotes About Patience

All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

Bend like the sapling you are. With time we shall find your oaken core.

If you point out a "truth," for want of a better word, to patients before they're able to hear or admit it, they lose trust in the therapist; their defences take over, and they improve only superficially. Overinterpreting to the client is the sign of a new or insecure therapist. A therapist can lead patients to the door of understanding, but they shouldn't drag them in. Their patients will enter when they're ready.

My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointments, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking Him for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

We're all just doing our best.' I left out the second part. 'Even if it doesn't look so good from the outside.

You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will open and in will come the one you've waited for. And then the waiting is done. And the rest of your life can begin. And the minute I looked up and saw you there, I thought, There he is.

That's the thing about days. No matter what your opinion of days, they always go by.

But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay.

I am not as unstable as people tend to think, but I allow them their margin for error because it allows me mine.

You think passion is enough. That it's all you really need. You think if something's just really, really important to you, it'll magically appear. Well, passion is all well and good. You won't get nowhere without it. But it's not the whole enchilada. You still gotta go step-by-step like everybody else.

But sometimes things happen that shouldn't happen. And sometimes there's not a damn thing we can do to stop them. But it's not definite yet. We'll just have to wait and see.

Maybe you hate a thing more than anything. But it's what is. To accept it means to see that it is that way, and that it won't be another way no matter how much you hate it.

But you have to let people go through whatever it is they have to go through. Just be there for your friends. That's all we can really do for each other sometimes.

If something works, I figure . . . just leave it alone. Let it be a thing that worked. Not everything needs to be picked apart for better understanding. Sometimes it's okay to just say thank you in the quiet of your head and move along.

Sometimes when justice is not close at hand, people are quick to tell you that you will simply have to wait -- that until the people standing on your neck feel more comfortable standing elsewhere, you have no choice but to be patient. They talk of this like it shouldn't be all that much of an inconvenience for you. But how do you hand a person back the time that was taken from him?

I think people are slow to believe in any kind of change." "That's 'cause nobody ever changes," she said. "Do you really believe that? Not ever?" "Well. Hardly ever. I guess you could be the exception to the rule." She still sounded as though she planned to wait and see, but it was marvelous progress all the same. It made my whole day.

Petey boy?" "No, sir." "Guess." "Before just now I would've said zero.

Human nature. After something works out, we forget the frustration of the steps we took in getting there.

Then he asked, "How long did it take you to love her?

I'm not saying this to be mean, Estelle, but this is not your day. I'm sorry. You have to let go and let things change.

It was time for me to practice relaxing about the things I couldn't control.

I looked down the endless stretch of highway and decided not to borrow trouble from too far down the road.