Quotes About Patience

That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday, you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.

Lisa and I groaned, cursing our stupidity. Once again we'd been duped. There was nothing worse than spending an afternoon on a golf course. We knew what was in store for us and understood that the next few hours would pass like days or maybe even weeks. Our watches would yawn, the minute and hour hands joining each other in a series of periodic naps.

For a while, when I was eleven or so, I used to drop the empty cardboard toilet rolls into the john. They would take a while to disappear, five or six flushes usually, but I was in no hurry.

Given all the time I've spent in the country, you'd think I might have seen a calf being born, but this was a first for me. The biggest surprise was how nonplussed the expectant mother was. For a while she lay flat on the grass, panting. Then she got up and began grazing, still with those feet sticking out. "Really?" I said to her. "You can't go five minutes without eating?

waiting on the other side of sixteen.

Each a frog in its own pot of water as the temperature ticked up a degree at a time.

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and softly rest on your shoulder.

Los refranes son siempre ambivalentes, a una sentencia le corresponde su opuesta, en eso consiste la sabiduría popular, en no equivocarse nunca y lo mismo a quien madruga Dios le ayuda que no por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano.

Im Krankenhaus, so mein Bettnachbar und Zimmerkamerad, er hat mich murmeln hören, seien wir dazu verdammt, zu liegen und zu warten, bis es besser wird. Oder richtig krank zu werden. Deshalb heiße es Krankenhaus.

Well, thank the gods,' he sighed. 'Oh? And what would it be you're thanking them for?' Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned. 'For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I'm complaining, you understand, but this business of following you cross-country without the faintest idea where I am can worry a man.

Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.

It's appealing to imagine that if we can just get that one thing in our life to work out-- [...] that everything will be solved, absolved, good to go for good. I slipped into that way of thinking way too often, I admitted to Missy, even though I knew that sometimes in life all of a sudden there you were--standing with your Technics turntables just across the Canadian border, and you're not a new you, you're just you, but in Canada.

Only a matter of timing.

You want to know the problem with going somewhere no one's ever been? It takes so damned long to get there.

Although there can be fast improvements all over a book, it won't gel into a single cohesive life right away. Keep going, keep faith, because it can follow the reductive dynamic of a slow meat stock. You boil it down for fifty hours, and, sure, it distils mathematically, you can see it reducing and growing richer hour by hour. But flavour and texture don't gel until the last ten minutes. Always simmer your work until then.

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

God does not shout; He whispers, and in that whisper is the way. Chyna Shepard in Intensity

Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.