Quotes About Patience

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

The second gift––patience––helps us deal with not knowing how long this is going to last.

Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.

There is a price for forgetting and remembering. Forgetting as a form of escape deprives us of what the Five Gifts can offer––humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, and growth.

Like a Chinese finger puzzle made of woven straw, finding relief requires us to relax rather than pull in order to gain release.

What is important is remembering that we are here on this planet to surrender, have patience, and allow ourselves to love and be loved. Crises help us to learn these things."--Lynn Robinson

Rebuilding emotional safety while remaining physically present in an environment that once proved destructive and continues to be potentially dangerous is a complex process that takes time––and the second gift of patience.

Getting angry because you cannot will yourself to push through it at your old pace will sabotage the pace of healing. Patience gives you the grace to slow down and let your soul catch up in its own time and in its own way.

We need to unlearn the habits of impatience and take stock of those beliefs about life that no longer hold true.

Humility helps us come to terms with what we cannot know. Patience takes the edge off when the hurt continues. Empathy is the gift that connects us with others. Forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

It's impossible to predict how the heart heals or how long it is going to take.

Sometimes during Mercury Retro I think, "Huh. This ain't so bad." & then that little bitch planet slaps me and I'm all, "On second thought."

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.

What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making. "But you never complain." 'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.

And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

Valley's don't last forever... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

Valleys don't last forever. Neither did the mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

faith would not be necessary if one could be sure about everything.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.