Quotes About Patience

They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.

Temptations are like dirty dishes.  There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up.  And there are some who must do them right away.

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

Relax, she said. You will be wise. You're young. You can't have everything right away. When something simple and true takes you by surprise, it hits you in the stomach.

There are stories about people who have loved someone forever after laying eyes on them for a few minutes and then nevermore, but these stories have not happened to anyone we know. No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases

If you are going to take a lifelong journey with somebody, you can't mind if the other person believes they are leaving for that journey an hour earlier than you.

I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others...waiting.

The humble, self-effacing Charlie you were all talking about a while ago is just waiting patiently. I'll admit I'm like him in a number of ways, but humility and self-effacement are not among them. I've learned how little they get a person in this world.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

Charlie, don't push me. I don't know. Already, you've gone beyond my intellectual reach. In a few months or even weeks, you'll be a different person. When you mature intellectually, we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally, you may not even want me. I've got to think of myself too, Charlie. Let's wait and see. Be patient.

by the slow and gentle emergence of objectless love, which calmly waits for us to stop pursuing the unattainable.

I pray about teeth-doesn't everyone? I don't have time to floss. You know. Hang in there, I tell them; I'll get around to it before it's too late.

To get in cars and drive down roads all over the country, all over the world, to drive just as slowly as the law will allow—although the law, especially as it pertains to speed limits, is not something Edward Bloom respects: twenty in town is too fast for him; the highways are madness. How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

Shortcuts of the expense of training will make you a weaker Jedi

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

Life isn't always candy, cowboy boots and horses but it should be.

I know the rain is cold my dear, but dance in it a little while you wait for the sun.

Dear God, Help me to stop worrying about the future and the things I can not control. I always allow myself to become overwhelmed and I miss out on enjoying this amazing and wonderful life that I have been given. I miss out as I worry what might be. Help me to see more of you. God and less of me, please show me the way and direct my steps.

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who lament. Very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.

"Trying" is the biggest mistake you can make early on in a relationship. It sets a false expectation that you will eventually tire of.

No garden is without its weeds.