Quotes About Patience

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?

She had spent her entire youth waiting and hoping for things that never happened. Now she was thirty.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world.

When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world. Anyway

The waiting's not the hard part. Waiting can be beautiful, lush, full of possibility.

Mrs. Monaghan says we don't always have to say what we like and what we don't like. We should just practice dealing with it.

Maybe the point is just to get through one hour, and then another, and not think farther ahead than that.

I believe that there is a perfect someone for everyone, and I know that you still believe that too. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect," he added.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

She was grateful life could be long.

That's what spending time with the young can do -- it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

No!" She pries the frozen square of manure from the dog's teeth and flings it away. Then she unzips her jacket and sighs one of those frustrated sighs that is supposed to help get patience back and which he hears from his wife all the time now. "Remember, Dad,

And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust that it will.

A veces tienes que esperar siglos a que ocurra alguna cosa y de golpe ocurren todas a la vez

Ella siempre dijo que él iba a volver, sabiendo que no era verdad. Yo lo repetía, pero a diferencia de ella, yo estaba segura de que iba a ser verdad.»

We have to get through the summer.' Finn didn't want to get through the summer. He wanted to fall into it, hunker down and stay for a while.

Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.

Wanting everything seems like an excellent way to set yourself up for disappointment. But what if you accept the yearning, what if the yearning is the only thing that can satisfy?

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not

the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

The truth is that even ten minutes spent looking at the sky with nothing to fill the time can feel long.

I feel like I spend much of my energy some days convincing the younger people in my house to go to bed so I can go to bed. There is always something else that has to happen. The toddler wants to be rocked again. Someone else's homework must go in the backpack. Someone has forgotten to tell me something very important, some story that takes meandering minutes