Quotes About Patience

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

Sataa hidasta kirkasta lunta kuin tähdet putoilisivat Odotamme pakkasen lauhtuvan ja surun johtavan jonnekin

triggered the

At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn't expect this at all. We thought they would fail to understand how democracy works. We thought they would be afraid of the Khmer Rouge. We thought they would passively accept their fate. We were wrong.

Soon. Soon. Soon. Soon. When is Soon? What a terrible word: Soon. Soon can mean in one second, Soon can mean in one year. Soon is a terrible word. This Soon compresses the future, shrinks it, offers no certainty, no certainty whatever, it stands for absolute uncertainty. Soon is nothing and Soon is a lot. Soon is everything, Soon is death…

What a laborious, frightful business it was, this killing time, over and over again that little seconds-hand racing invisibly beyond the horizon, over and over again you threw a heavy dark sack over it, in the certain knowledge that the little hand went racing on, relentlessly on and on…

Here on earth we find ourselves in a waiting room.

One cannot reach the fifth storey of the Potala without starting at the ground floor.

The haste of Europeans has no place in Tibet. We must learn patience if we wished to arrive at the goal.

I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.

God is at work in my life and everything is unfolding as it should.

I got home and I thought I should stop leading so aimless an existence. It is harder than you might think to stop leading an existence, & if you can't do that the only thing you can do is try to introduce an element of purposefulness....and though I might have to wait another 30 or 40 years for my body to join the non-sentient things in the world at least in the meantime it would be a less absolutely senseless sentience. OK.

You have to deal with people the way they are, not the way you'd like them to be.

There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.

Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure; all take their turns of retardation….Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance, said Sib, was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

Is my mind closed? No. It's wide open. I'm always waiting.

You don't have to chase every bird that you see.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

The thing about gardens is that everyone thinks they go on growing, that in winter they sleep and in spring they rise.

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.