Quotes About Patience

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.

I had friends who were great fans of Star Trek and I don't know if I was smart enough to get it, or patient enough. What I loved about Star Wars was the visceral energy of it, the clarity of it, the kind of innocence and big heart of it. Star Trek always felt a little bit more sophisticated and philosophical, debating moral dilemmas and things that were theoretically interesting, but for some reason I couldn't get on board.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Time is making fools of us again.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

use your restless and churning mind as an opportunity to look more deeply into it, rather than as an immediate reason to conclude that the meditation is "not working.

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

Short cuts make long delays.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

Little by little, one travels far.

February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.

68. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Ha sempre sospettato che la signora madre, in un lontano passato in cui era giovanissima e immaginosa, ha scelto di farsi morta per non dovere morire. Da lì deve venire quella sua speciale capacità di accettare ogni noia col massimo della condiscendenza e il minimo dello sforzo.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

So I stayed with the old priest who was my teacher, but lots of unanswered questions always came up. Then I thought, "Why don't you teach me anything?" But my teacher didn't care. He just lived. He just let me be alive every day.