Quotes About Patience

When you plant it handle the wild cherry tree like a baby

The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

sometimes you find your path gets blocked, and you have to take a step back – back home, even – to move forward.

Running too hard too often is the single most common and detrimental mistake in the sport.

Becoming a more skillful and efficient runner is more like growing a beard than it is like chopping wood.

You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world. But nothing in the world can get you more time.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.

It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn't going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.

Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let's not worry.

This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you. The hole is so used to being a hole it doesn't know how to close itself.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

That is the whole thing with the future. You don't know. At some point you have to accept that you don't know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.

There will be other days. And other feelings.

Pain is a debt paid off with time.

The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another.

As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: "Lighthouses don't go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Sip, don't gulp.

Which is to say: don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.

Don't worry about things you can't control.