Quotes About Patience

There aren't always answers. There isn't always a reason.

Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

Life got ahead of me. I thought I would hurry up walking through this desert and I would await its arrival!

There comes a time when you declare truce with pains, joys, and expectations alike – a kind of statement that I need to live like trees, like grass, like stones.

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish" Here we have thirst and patience, from the first, and art, as in a wave held up for us to see in its essential perpendicularity; Not brittle but intense--the spectrum, that spectacular and humble animal the fish, whose scales turn aside the sun's sword with their polish.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

them already packed and waiting.

You can scare yourself into stuckness by assuming you have to make radical life changes in order to make progress. You don't. Real change is practically invisible as it's happening. No trumpets sound. A marching band will not play at your door. Meaningful progress doesn't feel particularly exciting. Most days, it feels like work. You show up, grind it out (sometimes joyfully, sometimes not), and repeat.

Fear is not the enemy. Waiting to stop feeling afraid is.

GOLDEN RULE: Never reply when angry, emotional, or buzzed.

All this while the little panel of pine wood remained over the chimney in the mill-kitchen with the cuckoo clock and the waxen Calvary, and sometimes it seemed to Nello a little hard that whilst his gift was accepted he himself should be denied.

Ich habe auf Dich gewartet, sagte die Frau. Ich habe Dich nicht gekannt, aber man kann auch auf Jemanden warten, den man noch nie gesehen hat.

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.

Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you, and some days you cannot even find the woods.

I have limits. Perhaps I can stretch them. But respecting them, I have learned, is generally wiser than pretending they're not there. Because I don't have all the time in the world, I have this whole hour, this day. The duration of one cup of coffee. The time it takes to listen to one more winding sentence or to stay with a child on her slow way to sleep.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

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Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process