Quotes About Patience

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. - Dash

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

We've already established my position on dillying and dallying, which right now is chaste with a chance for inveterate lust, depending on the ripeness of our first interactions.

I have to figure, with this many stops and starts, surely this train will pull out of the station eventually. What's the big fucking rush?

If Caroline was here, she'd give me her Patience, grasshopper speech. But she's not and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

There's no way for me to know she'll find me here. I didn't call. I didn't text. I left it up to old connection, that old friendship sense.

Why do girls always fall for guys with the attention span of drosophila?

It's definitely worth something," I said. "A lot. We still don't know each other, right? And I'll admit—I thought it might be best if we kept it all to the page, passed that notebook back and forth until we were ninety. But clearly that wasn't meant to be. And who am I to blow against the wind?

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy, either.

Ya sabes como es esa sensación que uno siente al esperar a alguien, y quiero decir, en verdad esperar a alguien.

Her hand traces down the zipper line and I say, Slow. Because this is not a rush. This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening. And this is ours.

Lorenzo gently places his hands on either side of my face, lowering his head to stare directly into my eyes. His voice is barely above a whisper as he says, Patience D'Angeli-Cat-you are my dream now.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday

Anyone can listen to an exciting story; but a good listener is like a determined gold prospector patiently digging through the mud to find a little nugget of the prized metal.

Humor und Geduld sind die beiden Kamele, mit denen man jede Wüste durchqueren kann. (Arabisches Sprichwort)

Was du schaffst überdauert die Zeit.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

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