Quotes About Patience

Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart," Rilke wrote, advising a young poet, "and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.… Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.… [T]his is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people."9

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.

I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know.

?akal bom ladje, sedel bom v katerem izmed bifejev ob pristaniš?u, na z apnom pobeljenem dvoriš?u, z uzom in mezeji in piškoti iz medu in mandljev z medom in mandlji pred sabo ... vdihaval bom te sladke vonjave. In ?akal. Sedel bom na modrem stolu in ?akal. Gledal bom menjavanje letnih ?asov na nebu z odprto knjigo na srcu. Ob morju se nebo hitro spreminja. Življenje se zgosti pred temi široko odprtimi vrati.

Oh, and Fionn's down there trying to teach her frog to talk. Away you go, Corr.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Rosebuds might be sweet, but one need never be so careful of the rose in full bloom.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. -A

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...