Quotes About Patience

If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.

I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.

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Do not allow yourself to become discouraged if nothing seems to happen when you set about practicing the various techniques outlined in this book for changing your self-image.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Perhaps I'm tired of waiting for something I may never find.

Volela bih da si uvek uz mene. Da si na mojoj strani. I kad sam razdražena. I kad nisam u pravu. I kad nismo sami. I kad sam nepravedna. Pre?i preko moje zlobe, umiri me tihim dodirom, ne mu?im te bez razloga. Ako ne znaš, sve je uzalud.

Where's the sun?" he asked me once. "Behind the clouds." "Is it always there? Even when it's cloudy?" "Always." "Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?" "No." "And if we were on a minaret?" "No. The clouds are above the minaret." "And if a hole was made in the clouds?" Indeed, why don't people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?

Suviše je jaka i isklju?iva, kao i ja, samo ne žuri da to pokaže, tiha je i uporna, uvjerena da ?e biti onako kako ona ho?e. Njen otpor nije pobuna ve? strpljivo zauzimanje položaja, ne za trenutak, ve? za dugo vrijeme.

Bir koçtan korktum, bir boktan korktum. Ne zaman ya?ayaca??m?

Bolje se držati nebeskih mera, nego obi?nih, ovdašnjih. Neuspjesi te ne uznemiruju, uvijek ra?unaš na beskrajno vrijeme, opravdanje je u razlozima izvan tebe. Li?ni gubitak postaje manje važan. I bol. I ?ovjek. I današnji dan. Sve se produžava na trajanje, bezli?no i ogromno, pospano tromo i sve?ano ravnodušno. Kao more: ne može da žali bezbrojne smrti što se u njemu neprestano dešavaju.

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

Uvijek ima vremena za ono sto je neprijatno.

Može biti r?avo kad ?ovjek ne osje?a da je vrijeme dugo. U ratu nije dosadno, ni u nesre?i, ni u muci. Kad je teško, nije dosadno.

Ne?e da prizna koliko se nadala. A ne zna ?ak ni ?emu.

I swore I would love you 'til the end of time, so now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive.

You can't run away forever but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.

Just the gardener….

count to forty.

we'll take it step by step. Don't worry about what tomorrow will bring. With God's guidance, tomorrow will take care of itself.

It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.

Just because someone isn't at their best doesn't mean you write them off forever" -Pen