Quotes About Patience

nfatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you're worked your way through it.

You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.

Infatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you've worked your way through it. You quit

All his genius and he's wrong. I can stay mad forever.

Worry less, enjoy more, because more often than not, things will work out anyway.

William Bennett expressed it this way: "Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your

He lives by what he calls the Homeless Credo: "Do what you have to do today. Tomorrow will come. And if it doesn't, you won't have to deal with it.

It is—let's be clear—very, very hard. Freud called child-rearing one of the three "impossible professions" (the other two: governing nations and psychoanalysis). To do even a half-assed job is a Sisyphean task. Children get away with things no adult would.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling." —GRACE PALEY

If you want to hit someone or you want to throw something, I want you to run first. I want you to run until you can hardly lift your legs and your arms. Run until you're exhausted, and then, if you still want to hit someone or throw something, you just wait 'til you've caught your breath again and then go for it. Try it

Please, God, or whoever's up there, please just give me enough time to make it right.

Kau harus membiarkan dirimu beristirahat sekali waktu, bahkan meski kau ibu terbaik di dunia

the hours can feel long, but the years go by fast.

none of which filled the hours that dragged by, until it was three o'clock and time to take the bus to Uncle Mel's. Each week, Bethie would

Staying married, she'd decided, was a choice; one that had less to do with love and more with forbearance.

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

Die Zeit macht etwas mit einem Menschen, weil ein Mensch keine Maschine ist, die man an- und ausschalten kann. Die Zeit, in der ein Mensch nicht weiß, wie sein Leben ein Leben werden kann, füllt so einen Untätigen vom Kopf bis zu den Zehen.

He can't remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors ask if he's read all the books on his shelves. . . .

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.