Quotes About Patience

much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably.

One of the best things about road-tripping with monks is that monks are used to repeating chants over and over and over, so they really don't mind songs like 'Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall' or 'The Song That Never Ends.

I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.

I won't remember you standing there bored by my bedside as I slur words, standing there waiting to feel like you've stayed long enough so that you're a good person and you're allowed to leave.

ESTAÇÃO Esperar ou vir esperar querer ou vir querer-te vou perdendo a noção desta subtileza. Aqui chegado até eu venho ver se me apareço e o fato com que virei preocupa-me, pois chove miudinho Muita vez vim esperar-te e não houve chegada De outras, esperei-me eu e não apareci embora bem procurado entre os mais que passavam. Se algum de nós vier hoje é já bastante como comboio e como subtileza Que dê o nome e espere. Talvez apareça

A gente bota dez dedos pra fazer comida, dois braços pra varrer a casa, um bocadinho de amizade pra fulano, três bocadinhos de amizade pra sicrano que é mais simpático, um olhar pra vista bonita do lado com o espigão de Nossa Senhora do Ó numa pasmaceira lá longe, e de sopetão, zás! bota tudo no amor que nem no campista pra ver se pega uma cartada boa. Assim é que fazemos…

Valei-me Nossa Senhora, Santo Antonio de Nazare, A vaca mansa da leite, A braba da si quise!

A relationship is like a pet; you have to work and work, just to keep it healthy.

Daylight follows a dark night.

Meing'ua oloitiko isirat lenyana

Many times happiness is just around the corner, on that corner that we never dare to turn.

el secreto está en pedir lo que es correcto y perfecto, y nosotros no sabemos qué es. Luego es necesario soltar y abandonar las expectativas. En el momento preciso nos llegará lo más apropiado y perfecto. Nunca sabemos de dónde va a llegar. Para recibir la sorpresa, debemos dar permiso.

Não te irrites se te pagarem mal um benefício: antes cair das nuvens, que de um terceiro andar.

We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubtings; and none of all these should, for one moment retard our course.

We must, however, urge it as a matter of the highest import, to cease from self-action and self-exertion, that God himself may act alone: He saith by the mouth of his prophet David: "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). But the creature is so infatuated with a love and attachment to its own workings, that it imagines nothing at all is done if it does not perceive and distinguish all its operations.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

You're getting ahead of yourself, Danika!" she said bracingly. "One thing at a time. Those home things can be wrong! Don't panic until it's time to panic! Maybe you're just dying of some horrible disease and you aren't even pregnant at all?

the voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

While disease is a mugger, age is a cat burglar who steals but a single day each night; and the thief has learned patience.

We see long-term planning as necessary and deliberation as a virtue, but when we decide that action is urgently needed, our tolerance for delay disappears.

feather by feather, the chicken is plucked.

But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more than a stale copy, and this was the trouble with Ba's elegant calligraphy, his patient life, it was frozen in time.

But was a miracle still a miracle if it came too late?

She held up her hands. "Stop, please. Allow me to hear one shocking sentence at a time.