Quotes About Patience

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

No one needs a watch. What we need is time.

There are enough fatalities of a mundane sort. Find a quiet place and wait for one of them to carry you off.

Better to kill time than kill oneself

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The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.

We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.

The first step toward patience is to become aware of when your internal dialogue is running wild and dragging you with it.

The second step in creating patience is understanding and accepting that there is no such thing as reaching a point of perfection in anything.

Consider a sailor trying to reach the horizon. It is unreachable. If the sailor sees the horizon as the point he must reach to achieve happiness, he is destined to experience eternal frustration

Getting the goal and achieving it are worlds apart.

As we attempt to understand ourselves and our struggles with life's endeavors, we may find peace in the observation of a flower. Ask yourself: At what point in a flower's life, from seed to full bloom, does it reach perfection?

The paradox of slowness is that you will find you accomplish the task more quickly and with less effort because you are not wasting energy. Try it and you will see.

A paradox of life: The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.

Doch Warten war ein Luxus, den er sich nicht mehr leisten konnte.

Unhappy me," quoth she, "and will't not stand? Come, let me rub and chafe it with my hand. Perhaps the silly worm is laboured sore And wearièd that it can do no more.