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Quotes About Patience

Letting it happen is not making it happen. It is not trying hard.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
~ W.B. Yeats
I will make rigid my roots and branches. It is not now my turn to burst into leaves and flowers.
~ W.B. Yeats
it's a long lane that has no turning.
~ W.B. Yeats
Here are copies of verses you said you liked. I do not think I could ever write or paint any more. I prepare myself for a cycle of other activities in some other life. I will make rigid my roots and branches. It is not now my turn to burst into leaves and flowers.
~ W.B. Yeats
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
~ W.B. Yeats
A line will take us hours may be; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been nought.
~ Unknown
La paciencia y la desgracia, el valor y la muerte, la resignación y lo inevitable tienden a aparecer juntos. Por lo general, la indiferencia ante la vida surge en el momento en que es imposible conservarla»… ¡Qué cínico parece!
~ Unknown
No esperes mucho: no temas nada»,
~ Unknown
You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.
~ Unknown
A garden is made of hope.
~ W.S. Merwin
Traveling Together" If we are separated, I will try to wait for you on your side of things your side of the wall and the water and of the light moving at its own speed even on leaves that we have seen I will wait on one side while a side is there
~ W.S. Merwin
endless patience will never be enough the only hope is to be the daylight
~ W.S. Merwin
A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.
~ W.S. Merwin
How long ago the day is when at last I look at it with the time it has taken to be there still in it
~ W.S. Merwin
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
~ W.S. Merwin
turning the pages patiently in search of meanings
~ W.S. Merwin
The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.
~ John Bingham
I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
~ Mark Kozelek
Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.
~ Ray Charles
I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
~ Mick Taylor
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche