Quotes About Patience

Il y a des jours, des mois, des années interminables où il ne se passe presque rien. Il y a des minutes et des secondes qui contiennent tout un monde.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Una sociedad crece cuando los ancianos plantan árboles bajo cuya sombra saben que nunca se sentarán

I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.

just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so you must attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

Hoffnung ist das Gefühl, dass das Gefühl, das du hast, nicht ewig dauert

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures.

I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean

Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.

Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while something clicked.

He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.

If one knew there would be enough then one wouldn't grab. That was another thing that was bad about the way we used to be. It was all grab grab grab while one could in case tomorrow one couldn't.)

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour".

Mum used to say one shouldn't wish one's life away, but she could never have imagined anything like this.

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.