Quotes About Patience

Why was there never enough time?

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.

Perfection takes time but comes for sure

Eventually I may have to become a more solid citizen again, I'm aware of this. But not yet.... Please. Not just yet.

Nothing is so essential as dignity, girls, and time will reveal who has it

Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you have to let it go. Some songs just aren't serious about wanting to be born yet, Waits said. They only want to annoy you, and waste your time, and hog your attention—perhaps while they're waiting for a different artist to come along.

Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough

However, I've always had the sense that the muse of the tormented artist—while the artist himself is throwing temper tantrums—is sitting quietly in a corner of the studio, buffing its fingernails, patiently waiting for the guy to calm down and sober up so everyone can get back to work.

sometimes you count the days, sometimes you weigh them.

since Moses was in nappies.

si experimentas la quietud necesaria con el tiempo descubrirás que todo (lo incómodo y lo hermoso) pasa con el tiempo.

One must bear what cannot be escaped.

If a cab would be kind enough to appear, I'll take it.

You are a perfect snail: you carry your home on your back.

Nothing pisses a control freak off more than life not going her way.

You don't just get to leap from bright moment to bright moment. How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies.

There are songs, Waits says, that simply will not allow themselves to be born, and that will hold up the recording of an entire album.

Sometimes it takes a very long while to figure things out.

Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies (or however the old adage goes), some wonderful things did happen to me in the shadow of all that sorrow.

do not be bold. You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.

Sometimes she appears to be thinking there has been a miscalculation in the political universe. Dragons with seven heads and ten horns: were they not seen this year? A leopard came out of the sea and sank back down. But patience, patience.

Don't panic. Panic will kill you when nothing else wants to.

as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.