Quotes About Patience

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?

Good will starts out fat and sweet as tub butter and turns slowly rancid. It must be made again daily if we want it fresh.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.

Snow lies on my fields though the air is so warm I want to roll on my back and wriggle. Sure, the dark downhill weep shows who's winning, and the thatch of tall grass is sticking out of the banks, but I want to start digging and planting. My swelling hills, my leafbrown loamy soil interlaced with worms red as mouths, my garden, why don't you hurry up and take your clothes off ?

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.

So the letters took a long time to get there, and the replies even longer to get back, and all the news was out of date; and this gave his correspondence a peculiar timeless quality which was very soothing.

You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Sometimes I wish the end would come... whatever it is

he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for the mercy on the part of bystanders.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. RAINER MARIA RILKE , Letters to a Young Poet

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.

In her confusion she tried to look scornful when Flutter Mildweather said, "One almost always gets what one wishes—one just doesn't know when or how—and that's what makes wishing so frightening. One must wish for what one is able to accept, somehow or other. That's very important to bear in mind. . . .

Svolazza Beltempo : – Quasi sempre ciò che si desidera si avvera, solo che non si sa come né quando, ed è questo che rende i desideri così ingannevoli. Bisognerebbe desiderare solo ciò che si è pronti ad affrontare in qualsiasi momento: è importante rifletterci sopra.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Listening - It's an old-fashioned concept, I know".

Don't wish your life away. Time passes quickly enough." Another of her favorite expressions was "The older you get, the faster time flies." The truth of the latter has been made clearer to me with each passing year.