Quotes About Patience

How do you measure absence? There had been minutes that had become hours, and hours that had been like a desert with no horizon. There had been days dull and deadened as lead, and whole weeks when she'd had to force herself forward, inch by inch, across their expanse. How do you know when your heart is ready once more?

Je zult zien, je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders, morgen nog niet misschien, maar ooit wordt alles anders. Je zult zien, je zult zien, het is nog niet voorbij. Ik weet niet hoe en ik weet niet waar, maar je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

Napoleon decided to wait. Spring 1805 was the time.

There was very little wind as they set out. The battle was unlikely to happen that day.

The French waited a couple of minutes and fired again. That shot fell alongside.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come along and pull them from their appointed slots. Take your time, the books whispered to me in their dusty voices. We're not going anywhere.

There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge.

I guess that's all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

The important things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

I guess that's all forever is. Just one big long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Unless you're God and you know everything, including the past and the future, most of life is pretty much a question of closing your eyes and stabbing at a map. You have to try not to give yourself a hard time when things turn out to be not as good as you'd hoped.

We value cleverness and intelligence and strength. Money, too. But nice is incredibly special. And it's not so easy to be this way all the time, you know? Other people are very difficult. It takes a lot of effort to understand them and stay nice despite everything.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.