Quotes About Patience

But I knew that I wouldn't learn the end of our story tonight—and I hoped I wouldn't, not for a very long time.

when I realized she hadn't really left for good. She'd just gone on ahead a little.

never hurt. He went

Um hoje vale dois amanhãs

the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

There are more on my list, and we'll get to them eventually. Or maybe not. I'm not exactly sure how this is going to work out. As you can probably tell, this is my first full-length book.

like for them to say, he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, one teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then he mixed willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well. Then he spread it over a span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING)

God gave us the acorns, but He doesn't crack them open for us." —Isaiah

You said give him another night," Bree said. "We gave him one. He could be in there

The time is going to pass no matter what you do.

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.' The poem is called Ash Wednesday, by T. S. Eliot.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.

I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.

We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.

My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.