Quotes About Patience

If your child wakes during the night, restart the schedule with the minimum waiting time for that night and work up to the maximum again from there.

Use the same waiting schedule for naps, but if your child has not fallen asleep after half an hour, or if he is awake again and calling or crying vigorously after even a short period of sleep, end that nap time.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Don't concentrate on what you don't have or have lost. The Lord promised the obedient to share all that He possesses with them. You may temporarily lack here, but in the next life, if you prove yourself worthy by living valiantly, a fulness will be your blessing.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.

Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.

To recognize the hand of the Lord in your life and to accept His will without complaint is a beginning. That decision does not immediately eliminate the struggles that will come for your growth. But I witness that it is the best way there is for you to find strength and understanding.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

Sometimes when you are feeling buried, you're just planted

Self-control issues are most likely to arise when choices and their consequences are separated in time.

Lao Tse told them to relax and learn from the life of a plant. It doesn't have to be told how to do its thing. It follows its nature.

and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

To look at the entire journey all at once was stupidity. You thought of it in segments; that was the only way.

Well, why not? My dream woman has always been been unavailable to me. What difference does a mere three-quarters of a century make?

There's nothing wrong with civilization. We're just no there yet.

You were not cut out for a quiet life because you are honest to a fault. A man can want something to the point of indecency, he said, and when he attains his goal, it is ashes in his mouth and a bad conscience. The twentieth century did not look to be an age with any patience for the past.

Why do we do inefficient things? Because sometimes we don't want life to be seamless—we want to feel resistance, we want to take our time, we want to savor the experience. When what you're doing isn't just a means to an end, you're in no hurry to get it done.

When what you're doing isn't just a means to an end, you're in no hurry to get it done.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

If you're holding a sapling in your hand when the Messiah arrives, first plant the sapling and then go out and greet the Messiah.

The best and easiest way to get a forest to return to any plot of cleared land is to do nothing—nothing at all, and do it for less time than you might think.

Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible.

I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.