Quotes About Patience

Kaip dažnai gyvenime b?sim? laim? šitaip pražudo nekantra patirti malonum? tuojau pat!

With women who do not love Us, as with the 'missing,' the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent our continuing to wait for news. We live on tenterhooks, starting at the slightest sound

Con le donne che non ci amano, come con i "dispersi", sapere di non avere più nulla da sperare non ci impedisce di continuare ad attendere.

The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including (consequently) those which one had believed to be most nearly impossible, naturally slow at times, is rendered slower still by our impatience (which in seeking to accelerate only obstructs it) and by our very existence, and comes to fruition only when we have ceased to desire it—have ceased, possibly, to live.

for the people who decline to give you the things you desire give you other things.

For what people have once done they will do again indefinitely, and if you go every year to see a friend who, the first time, was not able to meet you at the appointed place, or was in bed with a chill, you will find him in bed with another chill which he has just caught, you will miss him again at another meeting-place at which he has failed to appear, for a single and unalterable reason in place of which he supposes himself to have various reasons, drawn from the circumstances.

like the last few lays of an old man waiting for impotence to strike. I

Una vez la niña preguntó. _La vida va a ser así para siempre? _No, no - le contestó, definitiva, la madre -. Si fuera así, Dios no nos habría puesto sobre esta tierra. y si lo hizo, fue por algo. Espérate, ya sabremos sus razones.

un clavo en el muro es siempre un acto de esperanza sobre un lugar físico determinado, de esperanza y persistencia.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

La Biblia enseña sabiamente que hay un tiempo para todo. Hay un tiempo para sufrir y llorar, pero también hay un tiempo para levantarse nuevamente y vivir.

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

Justice, like the will of God, doesn't always manifest itself on the spur of the moment. It doesn't always come when you think it should. You just gotta wait it out. And

Comenzó a pasar más tiempo esperando a su príncipe azul que estando con él.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and how nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

The best answer to anger is silence.

When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow. But as long as you don't point it out to him, don't make fun of him; be aware of what you need to work on instead.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.