Quotes About Patience

Well what does it matter,' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in advance?

Sometimes a crow lands on the roof of the house. It sits there for hours and watches the girl. The woman doesn't chase the bird away.

Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness?

After all," she said, "many people here have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different than them—so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?

But nine years are a long time, and Meggie saw how careful they were with each other, like people on a narrow bridge crossing a wide, wide void.

After all,' she said, 'many people have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different to them — so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?

Certi libri vanno assaporati lentamente, altri divorati in un sol boccone. E solo alcuni, pochi, vanno masticati per digerirli completamente.

Real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

The slow days drifted on, and each left behind a slightly lightened weight of apprehension. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Some come here to wait for death, others for life to begin at last, others again live only on the stories they are told.

It's the place that worries you," said Hazel. "I don't like it myself, but it won't go on forever." Richard Adams, Watership Down

I just planted this story, but it's growing the way it wants to, and everyone expects me to know in advance what kind of flowers it will have!

Let him alone," said Merlin. "Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come and easy-go." T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Impatience, not fear, is the mind-killer.

discounting' is when you discount something too much, just because it's some time in the future.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

10. If the reader would know, how these good people fared the rest of the melancholy winter, let him know, that besides the exercises of Religion, with other work enough, there was the care of the sick to take up no little part of their time. 'Twas a most heavy trial of their patience, whereto they were called the first winter of this their pilgrimage, and enough to convince them and remind them that they were but Pilgrims.

and had occasion to think on the Italian proverb, " To wait for one who does not come; to lye a bed not able to sleep; and to find it impossible to please those whom we serve; are three griefs enough to kill a man.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.

Stay calm, have courage, and watch for signs.

Oh for Thor's sake,' said Camicazi in exasperation. 'Have you not hung around with him for long enough to know that you never give up hope until you are presented with actual Hiccup skeleton, solemnly registered and verified by the Valkyrie Death Committee as completely authentic?

K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.