Quotes About Patience

During her lifetime Eleanor of Aquitaine had not been a patient woman. While she had lived, she had learned to bide her time, but biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

They waited for miles and miles of time

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, "Why is this happening to me?

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

DO NOT BE CONCERNED WITH THE FRUIT OF YOUR ACTION — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present.

psychological time, which is the mind's deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found and ignoring the only point of access to it: the present moment.

Your life's journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to "make it." You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

Large-scale waiting" is waiting for the next vacation, for a better job, for the children to grow up, for a truly meaningful relationship, for success, to make money, to be important, to become enlightened. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

?ak i kad je nebo prekriveno teškim oblacima, nije rije? o tome da je Sunce nestalo. Sunce je još uvijek ondje, iza oblaka.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You