Quotes About Patience

De eeuwige rust komt toch wel – daar hoef ik geen voorschot op te nemen.

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Thought was slower than anger to flower into action, but it was a hardy perennial. It did not bloom and die.

Now all you two have to do is wait till the sun goes down," he said, adding mischievously, "Fool thing to do, too, if you ask me, gettin' married near the longest day-and the shortest night of the year.

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

The less you strain, the more you relax and let it happen, the more successful you will be. This will make more sense after the first three

Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.

typically sit for 18 months at a stretch,

Just because I said that's what I want doesn't mean that's what I want. I mean, that's what I want but that doesn't mean that I'm necessarily ready for it.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.

How many times Can you go back to the same spot With love? I never hope to know. We work patiently at our quarrels, Starting them now like love, Deliberately but with elaborate Ease. When they catch We marvel at the blaze, Crowding in close. 'Inexhaustible!' we shout at one another, Happy for the moment. I never hope to know How many times.

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward.

There is nothing to do but put up with it. I have a cat's luck." Her indomitable will had begun to triumph over despair and apathy.

o sit and wait for joy to arrive without turning your mind to the things of Christ is like expecting the Holy Spirit to take 15 pounds off your body while sitting on the couch eating ice cream (p. 57).

Nobody gets any brownie points for loving people who are easy to love. Difficult people are God's sandpaper. They'll rub those rough edges off you and let you prove your faith.

He cannot act except with kindness, he cannot feel anything but forgiveness; every movement he makes, everything he does, speaks of his love, but not his lips.

Patient endurance is a sign of progress.