Quotes About Patience

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Amabilidad, paciencia y sentido del humor. Tener sentido del humor por el hecho de que tu mente sea como un mono salvaje.

six ways of compassionate living: generosity, discipline, patience, enthusiasm, meditation, and prajna—unconditional wisdom.

When people ask me how long this will take, I say, "At least until you die.

The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

Interromper nossa expectativa de solução é um presente que podemos dar a nós mesmos.

refraining is very much the method of becoming a dharmic person. It's the quality of not grabbing for entertainment the minute we feel a slight edge of boredom coming on. It's the practice of not immediately filling up space just because there's a gap.

key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

But please don't go away from here thinking that meditation is a vacation from irritation.

At the beginning joy is just a feeling that our own situation is workable. We stop looking for a more suitable place to be. We've discovered that the continual search for something better does not work out. This doesn't mean that there are suddenly flowers growing where before there were only rocks. It means we have confidence that something will grow here.

Altogether, ye tang che means totally tired out. We might say "totally fed up." It describes an experience of complete hopelessness, of completely giving up hope. This is an important point. This is the beginning of the beginning. 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.

Hacer una pausa en lugar de llenar inmediatamente el espacio es una experiencia transformadora. Cuando esperamos, empezamos a conectar tanto con la inquietud fundamental como con la amplitud fundamental.

Discipline provides the support to slow down enough and be present enough so that we can live our lives without making a big mess. It provides the encouragement to step further into groundlessness.

Life is a good teacher and a good friend

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - "You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather."-

maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

If you can't face living your life day by day, you must live it minute by minute.

I'm afraid I'm not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.' 'Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they'll adapt little by little.

I think one should never be too busy to teach those who are anxious to learn.

Helen,' said Mr Harrison, with a sigh, 'we all know that living with James can be very trying. But it does help to develop a resistance to some of his more flagrant lines of deception.

Leave it till the morning. We'll all feel stronger then.

And who am I, that I should be asking you of all people for an easy life? As you think best then Lord, but only, give me patience when my own runs out...

I simply wanted to remind you that a man without sleep, food and leisure is indistinguishable from a man without charity, patience or a sense of humour.