Quotes About Patience

If something hasn't happened, it's not because it can't happen, or won't: it just hasn't happened yet." More

Instead of getting personally involved in our problem, we can just as easily let go and let the majesty of the universe do its glorious thing.

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He ached to touch her, to kiss her, but she hadn't asked him to do either - yet. He'd rather eat his own balls than ruin this for her.

B abysitting toddlers was not for the weak.

French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to say bonjour , they must teach her how to eat.

Soul mate" isn't a pre-existing condition. It's an earned title. They're made over time.

Give willingly, refuse unwillingly," he writes in Émile. "But let your refusal be irrevocable. Let no entreaties move you; let your 'no,' once uttered, be a wall of brass, against which the child may exhaust his strength some five or six times, but in the end he will try no more to overthrow it. Thus you will make him patient, equable, calm and resigned, even when he does not get all he wants.

One reason for pausing is that young babies make a lot of movement and noise while they're sleeping. This is normal and fine. If parents rush in and pick the baby up every time he makes a peep, they'll sometimes wake him up.

THE FRENCH HAVE a saying: 'You can't go faster than the music'. They believe that a child will roll over, rise to his feet, become potty trained and start to talk when he's good and ready. Lovingly encourage and support him – don't try to rush his development or turn his childhood into boot camp. Being a little kid shouldn't be hard work. There's time enough for that later.

Much of life consists of the dead time between events. Don't fill these interstitial moments with pornography and cat videos.

I'm aware that American-style instant bonding between women doesn't happen in France. I've heard that female friendships here start out slowly and can take years to ramp up. (Though once you're finally "in" with a Frenchwoman, you're supposedly stuck with her for life. American insta-friends can drop you anytime.)

Whenever you turn around, I'll be watching and waiting for you.

But it was only while lolling around the basement or backyard that you'd settle into the anesthetizing effects of boredom, and with that monotony, your brain would kick into action, attempting to compensate. You might notice the world around you, both the minute and the grand, at its natural pace, letting go of the need to relentlessly move on to the next new thing.

I learned not to invest too much in a relationship before I really know how the other person feels.

no one finds a braggart wise. And once I no longer thought of listening as "waiting to talk," I began to have more meaningful conversations.

Life doesn't have the best timing , but things that are supposed to happen will happen when they're supposed to.

People often suffer the most By anticipating suffering that never happens. They, therefore, have more to bear than God gives them to bear.

Everything that was taken from you, God will give back to you. If you just hang in there, the reward at the end of this journey is going to be amazing. God is going to work it out for you; just wait on Him. God makes no mistakes, and He has a reason for everything that He does, whether we see it or not.

Never give Advice, Unless you are asked for it .

You, don't hook everywhere. ?#?iampm?

Those who don't play chess may tend to think of it as a tedious game, best suited to idle eccentrics and the elderly - people with vast patience and plenty of time to waste.

They were staring at the gleaming guadrangle as though awaiting an oracle's reply.

anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.