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Quotes About Patience

People who seek only success rarely find it, because success is not an end, but a consequence.
~ Paulo Coelho
In order to hear Love's words, you must allow Love to approach.
~ Paulo Coelho
We have 2 big problems here: 1] knowing when to start 2] knowing when to stop
~ Paulo Coelho
Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
~ Paulo Coelho
Wait patiently for the right moment to act. Do not let the next opportunity slip. Take pride in your scars. Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. Often this will lead them to seek dialogue and avoid conflict. Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
~ Paulo Coelho
Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy
~ Paulo Coelho
There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear.... Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow
~ Paulo Coelho
Esperar. Ésa fue la primera lección que aprendí sobre el amor. El día se arrastra, haces miles de planes, imaginas todas las conversaciones posibles, prometes cambiar tu comportamiento… y te vas poniendo ansiosa y ansiosa, hasta que llega tu amado. Entonces ya no sabes qué decir. Esas horas de espera se han transformado en tensión, la tensión en miedo, y el miedo hace que nos dé vergüenza mostrar nuestro afecto.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm losing the Love i have without having yet won the Love i hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional in this life. Secondly, using this sudden change of course to risk new things in daily life, to do things you always dreamed of.
~ Paulo Coelho
Continue in the way of the bow, for it is a whole life's journey, but remember that a good, accurate shot is very different from one made with peace in your soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Then seek the Truth. Seek always to be on its side, even when it brings you pain. There are times when the Truth goes quiet for long stretches, or when it doesn't tell you what you want to hear. That's Sufism.
~ Paulo Coelho
The bow is life: the source of all energy. The arrow will leave one day. The target is a long way off. But the bow will stay with you, and you must know how to look after it. It requires periods of inaction - a bow that is always armed and braced loses its strength. Therefore, allow it to rest, to recover its firmness; then, when you draw the bow-string, the bow will be content, with all its strength intact.
~ Paulo Coelho
A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry. Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is like a marriage - said the gardener. - Along with the good things, a few little inconveniences always appear.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.
~ Paulo Coelho
This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~ Paulo Coelho
Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it
~ Paulo Coelho
Esperar duele. Olvidar duele. Pero el peor de los sufrimientos es no saber qué decisión tomar.
~ Paulo Coelho
if pain must come, may it come quickly. because i have a life to live, and i need to live it in the best possible. if he has to make a choice, may he make it now. then i will either wait for him or forget him. waiting is painful. forgetting is painful. but not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
~ Paulo Coelho
Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.
~ Paulo Coelho
Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
~ Paulo Coelho