Quotes About Patience

He didn't make plans himself any more. There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

You are an old soul," he said. "It can't be easy. But your life is still ahead of you. It must be lived.

She needed more time, there simply wasn't enough of it. This was the only way she could think of making it (setting her alarm five minutes earlier every day). Not making it exactly, if you could make it from scratch - brand new time- that would be fantastic.

Life's too short," she said. There were days when Jackson thought life was too long.

Time did not heal—it merely rubbed at the wound, slowly and relentlessly.

Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.") Juliet, and perhaps Juliet alone, had begun to sense Godfrey's impatience. She had learned to read between the lines. But wasn't that where the most important things were said?

But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait.

Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.

Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...

So many miracles have not yet happened.

That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.

But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.

We do not know what will become. What will become is what becomes, and that is all we know.

Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Open your heart," she said gently. "Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Rob sat out on the curb in front of the motel room and waited for Sistine to come back from using the phone.

see it tomorrow?" I asked. "Child," she said, "as long as this is my garden, you're welcome in it. But that tree ain't going to have changed much by tomorrow." "But I want to see you, too," I said. "Hmmmph," said Gloria Dump. "I ain't going nowhere. I be right here." I woke Winn-Dixie up then. He had peanut butter

How long are you supposed to wait? That was another question that Raymie wished she had asked Mrs. Borkowski. How long should you wait, and when should you stop waiting?

Not all at once can the soul talk with God, be He ever so near.

No one can fall in love at first sight. Love is built over years, not snapped into existence like a flame that can be as easily extinguished.

You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.

Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next spring. Think not only for this day, but for the one that is to come.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

The secret to delicious scrambled eggs was to cook them in a saucepan with bubbling butter and stir them constantly with a wooden spoon. Keep the heat medium-low. Resist the temptation to turn up the gas and cook the damn thing in two seconds. Only patience would allow the eggs to come together soft and fluffy and very, very light