logo

Quotes About Patience

and more relaxed about living with uncertainty about the rest.
~ Jenny Alexander
It wasn't that the ice-cream man came everyday; he came whenever the child heard his music.
~ Jenny Boully
My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?
~ Jenny Colgan
There were daffodils, yes, and crocuses, and the hardy little snowdrops; and green was beginning to wreathe its way across the land – but when you still had to scrape the ice off your car in the morning, when you still had to run across the road in howling gales and lashing rain, when it felt as if you were holding your breath, waiting for the year to begin, even as days of your life passed you by …
~ Jenny Colgan
Baby steps – one at a time. One day at a time, one breath at a time. That's the only way anyone gets through anything, okay?
~ Jenny Colgan
Everything seemed to happen so slowly. Nina watched the spiral of dust tremble its way from the ceiling, wavering in the light, a tiny cloud of white, nothing more. But it was, she knew, enough. She looked at Surinder
~ Jenny Colgan
that seasons would come and go with the clouds passing across the sky, but also that everything would come around again and find itself much as it had been generations ago, in the farms and the rivers and the towering cliffs and the gentle running valleys, where life did not move so fast that there wasn't time to settle down with a cup of tea and a piece of shortbread and a book.
~ Jenny Colgan
Plymouth?" Chapter Five They had to wait thirty-five minutes for the tide to go out far enough for them to get back across the causeway. Polly spent the entire time humming to distract herself from Kerensa, who had come up with another ninety-five reasons why she couldn't possibly move to Polbearne. Funnily enough, they only seemed to make her more determined.
~ Jenny Colgan
The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end," and you could say, "Thank you, Fairy Godmother.
~ Jenny Colgan
It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end," and you could say, "Thank you, Fairy Godmother.
~ Jenny Colgan
The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end
~ Jenny Colgan
Nina, I have tried to be patient. I have tried to help when things go wrong and you buy a book and things go well and you buy a book and it rains so you bring home some books and it's sunny so you get some books. But .
~ Jenny Colgan
Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end
~ Jenny Colgan
Baking is...Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..
~ Jenny Colgan
keyif duyan ki?i bulundu?u yerde tak?l?p kal?r, art?k ileriye do?ru hareket etmezdi.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?
~ Jenny Han
There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
~ Jenny Han
We're still here. It's not the future yet. *
~ Jenny Han
Things have a way of settling back.
~ Jenny Han
That's life. Things don't always work out.
~ Jenny Han
You'll just do what you did before he was your boyfriend," Alicia says. "You'll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen." She reaches out, touches her papery hand to my cheek. A smile plays at her lips. "All you need is time, and you, little one, have all the time in the world.
~ Jenny Han
He has the look of a Handsome Boy from a different time. He could be a dashing World War I soldier, handsome enough for a girl to wait years for him to come back from war, so handsome she could wait forever.
~ Jenny Han
as anyone who's ever scrapbooked knows, Rome wasn't built in a day. You could spend a year or more working on one scrapbook.
~ Jenny Han
I try to do some eye makeup, but I end up washing everything off and starting over again.
~ Jenny Han