Quotes About Patience

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

It's okay if you're not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you're on the way to being happy

eight-o-five, Lars still wasn't here, and Ty had switched

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Maybe you can afford to wait… but for some of us, there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to panic or twist in ways that make the blades tear deeper, finally infecting the wounds.

In real time, darkness might last eight hours, but in psychological time, it can go for vast stretches.

Damn you! Just ask me to wait and I will, ask me to understand that things will be difficult but that when this period is over, we'll be happy and in love and together. Please stop with the dreaded respect line. I don't want you to respect me. I want you to want me.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

By May 18, they went ashore again, in a different bay, where they waited fifteen days for the missing ships.

Three hundred and

The castaways spent eight days in more or less the same area, disoriented, dispirited, waiting for pieces of the wreck

Guides will give various practices, but rarely do Murids perform them and even more rarely with any kind of consistency. Many people run around from Sheikh to Sheikh or therapist to therapist, trying to get answers. Often the problem is that these people never truly put into effect the answers they have already been given. Rather than always looking for more, more, more, they should use what they have already been given.

Learn how to work and then the Great Work will be revealed to you.

The Rules of Life. The first rule we came up with was: Be here now. It's a good survival rule. It means to pay attention and keep an up-to-date mental model. The second rule was: Everything takes eight times as long as it's supposed to. That was the friction rule, which travelers in the wilderness will do well to heed.

Rescue will come as a welcome interruption of…the survival voyage.

The limitation on patience applies here because deferred spousal benefits rise in value between age 62 and FRA but they do not rise beyond that point. So holding out any longer won't hike your spousal benefits one red cent, save for the annual inflation adjustment. As for survivor benefits, which are available as early as age 60 (age 50 for widow[er]s of disabled workers), the reward for patience also ends at FRA.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

"Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"—"Good G—!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time—"Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?"

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.