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Quotes About Patience

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who know how carefully to administer varied doses of hope and despair.
~ Alain de Botton
We know that, when teaching students, only the utmost care and patience will ever work: we must never raise our voices, we have to use extraordinary tact, we must leave plenty of time for every lesson to sink in, and we need to ensure at least ten compliments for every one delicately inserted negative remark. Above all, we must remain calm.
~ Alain de Botton
Cele mai atr?g?toare femei nu sunt cele care ne dau voie s? le s?rut?m imediat (devenim repede nerecunosc?tori) ?i nici cele care nu ne las? deloc s? le s?rut?m (le uit?m repede), ci cele care ne duc de nas aceste extreme.
~ Alain de Botton
The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray.
~ Alain de Botton
There are lessons for long-term relationships in the way that Manet approached asparagus.
~ Alain de Botton
Wat hield deze liefdespermanentie in? Een zeker geloof in de liefde van de ander, dat zonder onmiddellijk bewijs of teken van de belangstelling van de geliefde in stand kon blijven, het geloof dat de partner, hoewel voor het weekend in Milaan of Wenen, niet bezig was een cappuccino of Sachertorte te nuttigen met een liefdesrivaal, het geloof dat een stilte gewoon een stilte was en niet een aanwijzing dat de liefde ter ziele was.
~ Alain de Botton
n'allez pas trop vite.
~ Alain de Botton
The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who know how carefully to administer varied doses of hope and despair. 11.
~ Alain de Botton
We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
~ Alain de Botton
Knowing that something difficult is being attempted doesn't rob the wise of ambition, but it makes them more steadfast, calmer and less prone to panic about the problems that will invariably come their way. The wise rarely expect anything to be wholly easy or to go entirely well.
~ Alain de Botton
Without patience for negotiation, there is bitterness: anger that has forgotten where it came from.
~ Alain de Botton
we will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.
~ Alain de Botton
that they will be patient and show compassion, that they will trust and forgive, and that they will remain best friends and loyal companions until death.
~ Alain de Botton
At least I know today that I will not have to wait that long.
~ Alan Brennert
Somehow it all works out.
~ Alan Cohen
When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.
~ Alan Cohen
Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.
~ Alan Cohen
The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.
~ Alan Cohen
Nothing in the world is permanent, including hard times. Hang in there, be kind to yourself, stay connected to your spiritual source, and you will emerge with unexpected gifts. That's a promise.
~ Alan Cohen
Time reveals character.
~ Alan Cohen
En la eternidad las demoras no importan, pero en el tiempo son ciertamente trágicas». (T-5.VI.1:3).
~ Alan Cohen
Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Say nothing," Essada suggested. "It makes you more tolerable.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I haven't got time to explain it to you, kid, but—that's not how the Force works.
~ Alan Dean Foster