Quotes About Patience

We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love.

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?

Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired. 'They are one and the same,' he replied... 'There is only one true God. He has many names.' 'Then anywhere upon the round earth, by whatever seas, those who believe in any God believe in the One?' she asked. 'And so are brothers,' he said, agreeing. 'And if I do not believe in any?' she inquired willfully. 'God is patient,' he said. 'God waits. Is there not eternity?

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong.

It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.

Man kann die Zeit nicht aufhalten, aber für die Liebe bleibt sie manchmal stehen.

But she would not be hastened. Words were to her things to be caught one by one and released with difficulty.

They stood, eyes meeting eyes, yet neither took the next step toward the other. "When I know what reward is great enough," she said, "then I will give it to you." "Because you live I am rewarded," he replied.

and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Without giving up hope—that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

Patience is not learned in safety.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We

The Buddha's principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

you're never going to get your act together, fully, completely.

The more you just try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.