Quotes About Patience

La Rueda teje según sus designios y en su momento. La paciencia es una virtud que debe aprenderse, pero todos debemos estar dispuestos a aceptar el cambio en un instante.

Also, I was beginning to tire of waiting for the lightning. If it was going to strike, let it strike.

He could not waste time worrying over problems he could do nothing about.

My mother, she said firmly, always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

One might have thought that the years would also have taught her patience, but it had done the opposite. The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn't have many years left. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

You must learn there is a time to speak all of the truth, and a time to govern your tongue. The least of the lessons you must learn, but important, if you mean to live long enough to wear the shawl of a full sister.

That is called Sheathing the Sword. Remember it.

Well, Mat thought, guess I can take that. For now.

different company. He was not sure how Egwene felt, but he would have been willing to go hungry if he could do it without the wolves. Three days, into the afternoon.

quietly as they waited. Mandarb danced in circles

If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.

He liked being able to think things through. It was easy to hurt people without meaning to when you were hasty.

Part of the compact between noble and commoner, ingrained in Faile from her birth, was that nobles provided safety and security. And a part of giving security was to remind people that evil times were not forever. If today was bad, then tomorrow would be better, and if not tomorrow, then the day after.

Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of

Care and a long life go together, blacksmith

Wish' and 'want' trip the feet, but 'is' makes the path smoother. -lini

Although life is grand, and pleasure is everywhere, we can't have everything we want every time we want it ! It's a hard lesson, but it comes in time.

An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.

I was seething. I told him that "the clock is ticking" and that our patience with their lack of political progress was running out. I angrily told him that every day that we bought them for reconciliation was being paid for with American blood and that we had to see some real progress soon.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.