Quotes About Patience

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.

Don't look for perfect endings, but allow not knowing to lead you to a deeper appreciation of life, so that you get your joy back on the way to an outcome that remains to be revealed.

Gilda's book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, "delicious ambiguity," the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.

The world had little patience or concern for innocence.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Time doesn't offer a refund.

When life events mimic shattered glass, carefully locate the pieces then gently pick them up.

As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won't miss the one with your name on it.

If you don't ask, you don't get. But if you ask and don't get, ask again.

Essence loves whatever is happening because it either created it or allowed you (your ego) to create it for your growth and evolution. What you learn to love about whatever you are experiencing is not how it makes you feel, but how perfectly it is suited to support your evolution toward greater love, wisdom, compassion, courage, patience, and understanding. Life is perfectly designed to evolve us, and that is what is lovable about every moment.

What we resist persists.

When things don't go as planned, simply asking, "Is it that important?" can be helpful. Answer this question from a place of being zoomed out: "Will this be important a year from now or several years from now? Will this be important on my deathbed?" Many of the things we get upset about wouldn't be important even moments or days later.

Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.

GOd let women bear children so women would never give up hope. Even if here on earth women were denied everything else, God would always let them bear children. Children were a promise brighter than the rainbow.

But be patient: you reap what you sow, you reap later than you sow, and you reap more than you sow.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

Un borracho busca bajo un farol la llave que ha perdido: un transeúnte caritativo se ofrece para ayudar al pobre achispado a encontrar la llave perdida. Al cabo de un buen rato de buscar sin éxito alguno la llave bajo el farol, el señor compasivo, algo fastidiado, dirigiéndose al borracho le pregunta: "Pero, ¿está usted seguro de haberla perdido aquí?" Y el otro replica: "No, pero es que donde la he perdido está muy oscuro para buscarla"» (Nardone 1988, p. 154).

excava un hoyo para tu estanque sin esperar a la luna. Cuando el estanque esté acabado, la luna vendrá por sí sola».

Thus, it is quite clear that things which the natural course of events, with its small, infrequent blows, could never teach the wise to bear with patience, the immensity of this calamity made even simple people regard with indifference.