Quotes About Patience

Hayat, b?k?lacak kadar uzun de?il.

Il arrive que la vie manque de tact, et qu'elle déploie ses incongruités au mauvais moment, quand nous n'avons aucune envie de sourire.

Baz?lar?, geleceÄŸe olan inançlar?n? kaybetmedikleri için sabrederler. Baz?lar?, iÅŸi bitirmeye cesaret edemediklerinden. Korkakl?k hiç kuÅŸkusuz hor görülesi bir ÅŸey, ama gene de yaÅŸam?n düzenine dahil. T?pk? boyun eÄŸmek gibi, o da hayatta kalman?n bir arac?.

For a long time, as I waited for her to return, I believed she knew I was there behind the trees and that this was my doing. That she knew I would come. For who else could it have been?

Everyone is hard to love, if you do it for long enough.

Fatigue overtakes me, and a grief so concentrated I swim in it. A grief that makes my arms heavy. A grief that makes my back slump. A grief that makes me close my eyes. I want to sleep like the unborn and the dead. I want to sleep so deeply that I see him again. I want to confront him. Who were you? I want to say. Why do you talk to me now? I want to shake his inert body. But what's the use? Our losses will never be done with us. They have endless patience.

One should never trouble about getting a better job. But one should do one's present job in such a manner as to qualify for a better job when it comes along." The

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.

He waits. "And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side. Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see...

He know where He wants to take me, and He'll get me there, in spite of myself.

Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Just as it takes a tree a long time to begin to grow again once it's transplanted, so you can give your healthy roots time to find the nourishment of your new soil in your new community.

Cisterns are made to hold water, but there was no water in it at the time. Had there been, Joseph could have drowned. Instead he stayed relatively safe inside the cistern until his brothers inadvertently moved him toward his destiny in Egypt. Reflecting on my own cistern experience, I realized that God's intention was not to drown me, not to overwhelm me with illness, but only to hold me still for a while.

Fred was patient with me in the years that followed our first meeting. He taught me that taking one's time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

If you ever fall into quicksand, the most important thing to remember is this: take your time. Quicksand, unlike water, will not move out of the way to let you pass. Instead, it resists movement. Flailing about will only cause you to sink deeper. But slowly gets you safely to shore. It's no accident that each episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood opens with a shot of a traffic light flashing in yellow caution mode.

But he also fiercely guarded his time of quiet and reflection (as you will see in the following chapter), and he always, always took his time.

If we can learn to wait through the "natural silences" of life, he liked to say, we will be surprised by what awaits us on the other side.

He taught me that taking one's time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can't you just see its slow, peaceful decent?