Quotes About Patience

the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.

Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and to breathe and to breathe you have to create a truce— a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.

Solo que todo depende de una gracia de aspiración al conocimiento del misterio, de nuestra paciencia, persistencia y energía suficiente para aceptar el sufrimiento de la transición a una vida nueva.

I don't know what's right. I don't know what's wrong," she said with a shrug. "I don't think anyone knows for sure. They may think they know; they may even convince themselves of it. But sometimes you can't be sure until much, much later when you see how it all worked it out. You just have to do the best you can and hope that it all works out.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.

The secret of getting things done quickly is not to hurry.

Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.

To use a sculptural metaphor, the great novel, essay, biography is imprisoned inside a block of marble and the writer must chip away with a tiny chisel until the exquisite appears

People will keep on doing the same things they like to do in many places not because they don't care about others. They just keep on holding on to opportunities while chances are still not ceased.

Many people want to talk at the same time when no one listens. When one talks, everybody leaves.

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

There is no time limit for caring. And don't wait for anybody to look for you or ask about you if you don't have time for everything.

Live simple, but don't stop dreaming. The world is not yours to hold, but you can manage it in your own time.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

Devotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?

The girls had to kneel all night on the parade ground waiting to see one of their number punished

The whole world, if you wait long enough Is full of falling.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.