Quotes About Patience

When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.

es posible que no obtengamos lo que deseamos, pero Dios siempre nos da lo que necesitamos.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands

You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone & here's what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, Where are the apples?

I decided in high school that I wasn't going to get married too soon. I'd forgotten that you can also wait too long, and then the only candies left in the box are the squished ones, rejected for their questionable insides. And if I'm honest, I'd have to count myself among those with questionable insides.

There I was, waiting, afraid I'd never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

Never think winter will last when spring is equally inevitable.

How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace

Goodness and mercy may not follow me all the days of my life, but it is here now.

You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, 'Where are the apples?' 

that's it. That's what you need to do in your marriage. You need to give what you want. And don't expect so much. That only sets you up for disappointment. If you expect anything, expect that marriage will be hard, that it will be work. And expect that the pleasures will be erratic and often small, but they'll turn out to mean more than you know.

Joke or not, something is occurring to me. You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they are given to you. Just

You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they are given to you.

Go about your business in the best way you know how, and love will find you. You know what they say: It's like a butterfly—you do better letting it land on you than trying to capture it.

You know who does it right? You know who does loving right?" "Who?" "Nobody. I mean, people can't even Ã¢â'¬Â¦ If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat. Do you know what I'm saying?

You know I love you, but you are one of the most exasperating people I have ever met.

the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes. To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment. And to have faith in…well, whatever we can have faith in.

You know, if I've learned anything in my life, it's this: you can push away everything but love. It will not leave. It will wait. Unto death, it will wait. You might as well accept it. You might as well give it freely, too—even more than freely. Anything else is pure exhaustion.

If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat.

all of our lives, we long to know what our future will be. It is a mercy we do not know.

welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts that someone is offering you, in part because they prevent interruption.