Quotes About Patience

No one is calling me. I can't check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I'm out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

It is not what you want to be doing. It is that you are passing the time. You are waiting until it is a certain hour and you are in a certain condition so that you can go to sleep.

So what I think at this point is that I'm aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.

Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it may be hard for her to stop grazing, because there are always a few more shoots of fresh grass just ahead of her.

Neither one has ever been awkward, clumsy, or hasty. They know the importance of not rushing.

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

Ouça, Virgínia, é preciso amar o inútil. Criar pombos sem pensar em comê-los, plantar roseiras sem pensar em colher as rosas, escrever sem pensar em publicar, fazer coisas assim, sem esperar nada em troca. A distância mais curta entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.

Tinha um relógio grande assim na torre e eu queria me agarrar nos ponteiros, segurar as horas, por que é que o tempo não parava um pouco? Queria ficar lá dependurado, segurando o tempo.

Voltei aos cremes e às saunas, tirei dos armários meus vestidos brancos, tenho que estar pronta porque hoje ou amanhã ou daqui a um mês. Ou um ano. Ele vai voltar.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

Time never works. It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts, and destroys. But it never works. It only gives us an opportunity to work.

At length the long-wished-for fall of 1856 arrived — long wished for because I could not be sure of an income adequate to support a wife until I was admitted to the bar, and I could not be admitted to the bar until I was twenty-one.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

It is a poor sort of fatalism which makes men fold their hands and wait for fortune.

Perhaps we expect time to work for us, when time is only given us that we may work.

Patience is passion tamed.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

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Tennison was about to reply when Burkin caught her eye. He gripped her elbow and whispered, "Leave the room, let him cry, leave him . . 

how could the guardians of convention in the 1880s lend themselves to originality in a woman who was 'wayward'? Dickinson had not seen fit to follow the advice Higginson, with patient kindliness, had laid out for her over the course of twenty-five years.

So I keep bringing these — / Just as Night keeps fetching stars

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.