Quotes About Patience

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

But to force growth is to kill it.

Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

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The Rule of Benedict, the fourth rung of humility requires us to hold fast to patience with a silent mind, especially when facing difficulties, contradictions—and even any injustice.

the power of the question was in the question itself? He'd taught her that one must let a question linger in the mind as one might savor wine on the tongue, and he'd cautioned that a rush to answer could diminish all chance of insight. Indeed, if one continually avoided questions by trying to answer them immediately, such impatience would become a barrier on the path to greater knowledge of oneself.

With the hindsight of the worldly experience she had since acquired, it was clear to Maisie that Dame Constance had suffered fools, if not gladly, then with gracious ease.

Go forward with a light step, my child. Your heart will open with every mile traveled. Fill it wisely.

Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy.

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions. Maurice's voice once again echoed in her mind. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Sometimes you can't slay those dragons; they can't be done away with, just like that." She snapped the fingers of her free hand. "You have to know how not to disturb them, how to mollify them if they become roused, and, above all, you have to come to respect them.

She had learned, long ago and in the intervening years when she was apart from all she loved, that to endure the most troubling times she had to break down time itself--one carefully crafted stitch after the other. If consideration of what the next hour might hold had been too difficult, then she thought only of another half and hour.

Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now .

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

But then we remembered. What did time matter when one was on an endless voyage?... And so we resigned ourselves and cultivated the virtue of patience. Only then did I notice that my back had begun hurting again.

If you can't get it, immediately forget it).

Once you realize that something cannot be attained, then forget it. It's not for you, at least at this point in time.