Quotes About Patience

One, not to look up and see how far I still have to climb. Instead to look back and see how far I've climbed already. When I see what I just did, I know I can do what comes next. Given time. And, two, to give myself time.

Then he said, "I just sort of finally got used to the idea that you didn't like me much." "No, I do. It just takes me a long time, sometimes. To figure out how I feel about something.

There's no reception up there," Remy's father said at long last. "Because there are no cell towers." Remy wondered sometimes if the long pauses before answers were his father's attempt to get Remy to figure things out on his own. But he was never right at the edge of understanding,

You're trying to change things that're not within your control to change. And whenever you try to do something that's impossible to do, you're going to find yourself a little on the tired side. Make sense?

He says the part that's driving us crazy is trying to fix a future that isn't even here yet. He says when it gets here, then we can figure out how to get through it. But now it's just driving us crazy because it's all unknown. So we just have to stay in the moment we're in. You know. Take things on one moment at a time.

Sometimes the people around you will have problems, and you'll wish they didn't, but there won't be anything you can do. You just have to trust them to get by as best they can.

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill

Only I can control the messages in my head. I may not have installed them, but, with great effort and a lot of practice, I can at least choose what to play at what time. These are the best two life lessons I ever learned on a tough trail in the great outdoors: One, not to look up and see how far I still have to climb. Instead to look back and see how far I've climbed already. When I see what I just did, I know I can do what comes next. Given time. And, two, to give myself time.

There's some things in this life you can change and some you can't. I'm sure August tells you the same thing. Here's what you do when the time comes to talk to your dad. Here's what I do. I say to my creator, 'I'm about to open my mouth here. And, historically, that's been a dicey thing, as we both know. So some help is in order. So let me know what you want me to say to this person in this situation. Say it through me.

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks? I could never figure that out.

I think the whole problem with this world is that we control our kids too much. What they naturally are just seems too darned inconvenient for us, so we get impatient with it, and we tell them not to be who they are. No good comes of it. Not in my opinion.

Look, I get it," she added. "I'm not without empathy. He upset you, and the upset needs time to move through you. It usually takes me about three days to let a thing like that move all the way through my system and move on. But while you're waiting, try not to feed it.

There's more to bagging groceries than you think. It's not as easy as it looks. There's a lot to know.

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill us.

You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. That's what your mom is doing. And that's what got me. There's really quite a lot of it going around.

You're still here," he said. He was squinting down at her. He didn't seem particularly happy, but he wasn't yelling. Nothing even close to it.

You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks?

I'm sorry you are having trouble being happy right now, Raymond. We all take turns, I think.

See, that's always the thing. While you're breathing and being all happy that the whole house didn't come falling down, you know there's another card drop coming right up. It's not about gaining much. It's just about gaining. It's always about not losing everything in the exact moment you're in.

Dispatch business quickly, and keep out of long debates and heats… be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and let it be in the grace, which seasons all words. George Fox,

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

Love rarely waits for permission.

You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough to understand how shut your big face can mean I've missed you more than the whole world can know .