Quotes About Patience

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

I've learned that patience is something you don't "have"; you must create it yourself. It isn't a commodity doled out to all infants in varying amounts at birth. You learn (and earn) patience by making time for it, calming yourself down, relaxing, and letting it happen. The more you practice patience, the more you have. And the more you have, the easier it is to summon when you need it most.

Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.

I've come to learn over my years of practice, which is that having a delicate conversation with a teenager is like trying to talk with someone on the other side of a door.

Raising teenagers is not for the fragile, and that's true even when everything is going just as it should.

And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

perhaps it is true that, as Bertrand Russell once suggested, "to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

You reminded me that I can't spend my life waiting for this to be over. I have to find out how to live in the middle of it.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

But she has five years to find Him and marry him and then another five years to have a baby, maybe two if she likes the first one. She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swinging left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going.

She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swiping left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going.

The baby is starting to grumble. Kim sits still in her chair and holds her breath. It's taken her all night to get him to sleep. It's Friday, a sultry midsummer night, and normally she'd be out with friends at this time.

Please don't be sorry. Please just cry for as long as you need to cry.

And so she had stayed. And stayed. And stayed. And the only mistake she was currently in danger of making, she realized, was the mistake of leaving it all far too late.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so far are princes who turn into frogs." "Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures.

I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

Can't you just tell me now?" "No, I need someone to eat with." A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option?" "No. But you're my favorite option.

she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.