Quotes About Patience

But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you.

can take over a week for a Venus flytrap to devour its prey, and it may only eat a few bugs in its life. Although people can force a trap to close by running a finger along it, carnivorous plant enthusiasts consider this rude.

Train every animal as if it's a killer whale" meant to work with every animal as if you could neither forcibly move it nor dominate it. "It's never the animal's fault" is pretty much what it says: If an animal flounders in training, it's the trainer's fault.

lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I

Les tortues ne participent pas à l'athlétisme

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.

Monsieur," said Madame des Aubels, "go away, I beg you." But the Angel hearkened not, and continued: "Saint Augustine, in his True Religion, Chapter XIII; Saint Gregory, in his Morals, Chapter XXIV; Isidore——" "Monsieur, let me get my things on; I am in a hurry." "In his treatise on The Greatest Good, Book I, Chapter XII; Bede on Job——" "Oh, please, Monsieur ...

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat—what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.

Time is a tease

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

La vie est lente et l'homme ne sait guère la jouer.

Time is a tease. Time is a tease–because everything has to happen in its own time.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

I should like my life to leave after it no other murmur than that of the watchman, a song to while away the waiting.