Quotes About Patience

Just because it turned out bad, doesn't mean it wasn't meant.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.

forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that.

Her whole life is devouring her, slow second by slow second.

We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.

Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the oak can take up to fifty years to mature enough before it's ready for offspring. The same can be said for certain people who shall remain nameless.

I guess you don't turn away a rescuer in hopes of a better one. You're thankful.

When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. Wait for them. Have some faith they'll arrive. This is also precisely the point: the hanging on. The waiting, the faith.

Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you've gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.

The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.

Stop thinking about the easy way out, There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done, You're far too young.

Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.