Quotes About Patience

There is no point changing coach halfway through the year.

There's no point in doing a dozen films per year, which come and go.

None of us are going to get younger, there's no point in trying to chase that dream because it won't happen.

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

She wanted people to know that love often lies in wait, ready to bloom when least expected.

The ceremony was elegant and yet surprisingly intimate. The pastor read from Second Corinthians, and then Megan and Daniel recited vows they'd written together. They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

The longer it goes on, the harder its going to be.

It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.

Und ich lernte, stockend und langsam zwar, aber ich lernte trotz allem, was zu tun war. Lernte, was für ein Kind offensichtlich ist. Daß das Leben eine Kette von kleinen Leben ist und daß jedes einzeln für sich gelebt werden muß, Tag für Tag. Daß man jeden Tag versuchen sollte, sich an der Schönheit von Blumen und Gedichten zu erfreuen und zu Tieren zu sprechen.

Sometimes dinner with these two was no better than eating with the second graders in the cafeteria.

Five minutes passed, then six.

People plan, God laughs, or something like that.

for the back half of the hurricane still lies in wait and with it, sometimes even greater destruction. Which

Allie: ¡¿Por qué no me escribiste? ¿Por qué? No había terminado para mí! Te estuve esperando durante 7 años. ¡Y ahora ya es tarde! Noah: ¡Te escribí 365 cartas! ¡Todos los días durante un año! Allie: ¿Me escribiste? Noah: ¡Sí! ¡Lo nuestro no acabó, jamás ha acabado!

It was tangible and real, close enough to allow me to dream of moving back to North Carolina; on the other hand, it unfortunately made time slow down. Isn't that the way it always is when you really want something?

O amor é sempre paciente e terno, nunca é invejoso. O amor nunca é pretensioso, nem vaidoso. Nunca é indelicado, nem egoista. Não se ofende, não é rancoroso. O amor não se congratula com os pecados dos outros, mas deleita-se com a verdade. Está sempre disposto a perdoar, a confiar, a esperar e a suportar todas as contrariedades.

That was the thing about battling cancer. The waiting. So much of the last few years had been about waiting. Waiting for the appointment with the doctor, waiting for treatment, waiting to feel better after the treatment, waiting to see whether the treatment had worked, waiting until she was well enough to try something new.

For a full week after trying to reach the editor of The Atlantic, I occupied myself with other things. On October 31 I made some cheerful notes about Tracy Chapman's singing and about Bizet's Carmen. On the first of November I wrote at length about my ingrown toenail. But it just wasn't enough.

So what he's saying is that the most natural state of being is not a state of being where you're enjoying the thing you're doing, it's when you're hoping for the next thing.

Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.