Quotes About Patience

We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

maybe they aren't mistakes at all. Maybe it's just that the path to the place you're supposed to be is longer?

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances. If the water was too warm, it killed the yeast; too cool and the yeast was not inspired to grow the bread. Without enough sugar, the yeast would starve, leaving the bread flat and lifeless; if the air was not humid enough, the yeast could not spur the bread to reach its full potential.

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. "Starting to think you were going to bail on me." "Didn't know you were expecting me," she said in what she hoped was a casual voice. He gets sexier every day. "Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.

Sleep well, and stay where I put you.

Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you.

You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

Take some more advice from Dr. Micah. Don't give women too much time to think. It never ends up good for either of you.

the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Books are never finished. They are merely abandoned." Only thirty percent of published books turn a profit, so we can rule out material motivation.