Quotes About Patience

You cannot fight time itself, slay the minutes and hours with your blade, wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Worrying won't help it turn up any sooner. And look!" continued the giant. "If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?

If it doesn't end well, then it isn't the end

You cannot fight Time itself, slay the minutes and the hours with your blade, nor wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn't

Woden preserve me from the terminally stupid.

text from Joanie: "R u ready to roll? Hang in there. It will be over soon. C u tonight. Luv u." He texted back: "All systems go. C u soon. Love u.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

I was six years old when Congress gave women the right to vote. I've been waiting for you ever since.

Sure, I believed the worst of myself but - not really. I was always waiting to be proven wrong.

Si vedrà chi ha più pazienza, la guerra o Napoli.

All will come of its own accord in good time and with abundant fullness, so long as one does not attempt to hoard or cling.

somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.

He took his time getting to her, as if he was sure she'd wait, sure of his own strength to hold her, even at that distance. He moved like he thought she was afraid of him, too afraid to run.

Ideas, he knew from experience, arrived in their own good time, dressed exactly the way they wanted to be and saying only as much as they felt like.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

So he left her, and she was alone. Very few people cared for her, and she for very few people. She remained alone with herself, waiting.

A bird doesn't feel sorry for itself in the winter.

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

It's no good trying to get rid of your aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Continuaré tirando pan al agua; y si mis hijos vuelven algún día, seré feliz.

But for herself, nothing but this dreary endurance—till the children grew up.