Quotes About Patience

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

He urges himself to strengthen his virtues now, without any further delay. This is what he means when he commands himself to limit himself to the present. Worrying about the future and regretting the past badly interfere with focussing on being virtuous in the present. He writes that if he can cut free of distracting imprassions that cling to his mind and can free his mind from the future and the past, then he can make himself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

Job, behold the Snout: Even when the pond dries up, it is not alarmed. It remains confident, even above the face of the waters. Do not mock the Snout, Job, for in three hundred and seventy-five million years, its face would be your own.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

No Cross, No Crown.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.