Quotes About Patience

sometimes God wants your son. sometimes He'll settle for a ram. PouncySilverkitten:

Puoi passare la vita ad aspettare momenti perfetti, ma a volte devi crearne uno.

Quentin did not consider himself a great interpreter of signs and wonders, but the lesson of the golden key seemed pretty clear to him. It was this: you've already won the game, so quit playing. Remain where you are, in your castle, and you will be safe. No further action on your part is required.

Whatever was coming next would come.

She was dying to look, but she supposed that if she lived her life properly then by the time it was over she'd know what was in it. That was sort of the whole point, wasn't it? To understand your own story? Reading the book now would just be cheating. And what kind of jackass cheats at life?

Whilst stay-at-home persons are searching for truth, the apple will stay on the tree.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Wouldn't it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter's pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, 'cause any fish that is down there is f***ing stupid.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, "Peace, child; you don't understand."

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

But answer came there none—And this was scarcely odd, becauseThey'd eaten every one.

Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."

"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,"Before we have our chat;For some of us are out of breath,And all of us are fat!"

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.

It is easy to find oneself so wrapped up in the end result that one pays too little attention to the small steps it takes to arrive there.

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book.

The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.