Quotes About Patience

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside — children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it, they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.

I hate when instruction books, blogs or well-meaning friends tell you "just get over it!" or "just write!"   Like that didn't occur to you. Like all it would take is someone pointing out that say, you should just stop doing that thing you've been doing all your life.   "You mean I should just sit down and write? My God, that's brilliant! Why have I not thought of this before? Thank you, oh sage guru!

He didn't ask you for your opinion on what he was doing as far as a break—he was telling you what he needed," Emily reminded her. "So you don't get to decide that he has to talk to you now. He walked away. When he's ready, then he can always come back and talk to you.

Human beings get no practice at staying. We have no special limbs for it. Once we commit to being still, darling, it's all we ever do.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.

How could an unlearned youth such as White write with such wisdom and resignation, while I, brimful of philosophy and book learning, was unable to still my heart into patience?

He slowed his runner's stride so as not to overtake her.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

I give a patient God My patient heart.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

These things happen. It is not the end of the world.

I'll be back quick as a rumor.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

O, lieve, lieve mensen, ik houd van u, en ik omhels u allen hartstochtelijk, ondanks de geduchte afstand. Laten we elkaar niet haten, maar, integendeel, elkaar liefhebben, gezamenlijk op de Dood wachten, en het ons in de tussentijd aan niets laten ontbreken.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in

Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

No answer is also an answer.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.