Quotes About Patience

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.

I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me.

I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he was thirty-five…but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child's life, no matter how much you want to.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE PROVERB

And if you don't find what you're looking for? At Roy's question Addie looked up. Then all I've lost is time.

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Once you are close enough to see it coming, there's nothing to do but weather the storm.

My mother nods toward Violet and her little friend, sprinkling grass over their mud pies. "This has been going on so much longer than either of us, Kennedy. From where you stepped in, in your life, it looks like we've got miles to go. But me?" She smiles in the direction of the girls. "I look at that, and I guess I'm amazed at how far we've come." —

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Your child is hurt. How quickly can you make it better? What if you can't?

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

You don't borrow trouble.

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course.

In a minute - Sometime soon - Maybe next time - Make it June Until later Doesnt always come