Quotes About Patience

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the latter nature cooks it for us.

Don't ask questions. 2. Learn from them as the experts on their disability. 3. Always agree with everything they say, never interrupting them.

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

La patience est une guerre qui se livre souvent avant la vraie bataille.

An ancient saying goes, "Spend three years without learning before you choose your teacher." We should select our teacher carefully enough before we become his disciple. Once we choose our teacher, we should follow him faithfully until we attain enlightenment.

Master Harada Sogaku writes, "For beginners it is adequate to sit for about thirty minutes at a time.

This pine tree by the rock Must have its memories too: After a thousand years, See how its branches Lean towards the ground.

Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth— how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.

O Spider Lily That grows on the mountain Called Waiting, Is there someone you also Promised to meet this autumn?

Iíve learned not to worry about what might come next

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

Little disciplines compounded over time make a huge difference.