Quotes About Patience

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

There is a fine line between knowing the stats your self-publishing generates and living your life around them. Some authors check their Amazon rank several times a day. That can only lead to madness and walking the streets talking to yourself.

It takes about eighteen months, on average, for a book you contract with a publisher to make it to the bookstore shelves.

Doing anything for the holidays? Joe asked me. We were stopped at a traffic light that was generally acknowledged to be the slowest traffic light in Merrick. Whole days would pass and this traffic light would stay red. Kingdoms rose and fell, presidential administrations came and went, and the light obstinately refused to change.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Patience is the key which solves all problems. ~ Sudanese Proverb

However long or dark the night is, the dawn will always break. ~ African Proverb

Words from the Heart are different then words from the brain, the meaning is totally different but our ears don't hear it, but the future will tell it to us, be positive and have Patience.

In life iTS only a Matter of Time Too Find the Suitable Colors.

The orchid, queen of exoticism, a mute observer slow to reveal the mysteries of her petals. Would that I had such patience, too. -DB

She was mature enough to know the difference between endorphin-fueled young love and the type that developed like fine wine over time.

You'd have to trust in Hope," said Fern. "Is that it?" No," Ragginbone replied shortly. "Hope needs something tangible to sustain it. You would have to rely on Faith. Only Faith can endure in the teeth of the evidence.

62: For G alone my soul waits in silence. He's running late, but my soul waits in silence. This is me, being silent. Out loud.

I keep in mind what Ann Dunnewold told me: when a mother takes care of herself, children absorb important lessons. "Both boys and girls learn that mothers have needs, too, which is also very important if they have children of their own," she says. If you must conquer guilt, she adds, tell yourself, 'When I take time for myself, I come back and I'm more the mother I want to be. More patient. Less reactive.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Time will explain.

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

to hope was to expect

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.