Quotes About Patience

Barely is enough for now.

I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. It's like when people say they have a funny story —like, just hurry up and tell the story and I'll decide for myself if I think it's funny or not.

Um, I think bangs are a very big commitment and not to be decided on a whim. Depending on how fast your hair grows, you could be growing them out for a year or more. But if you're serious, I think you should wait till fall, because it'll be summer before you know it, and bangs in the summer can be sort of sticky and sweaty and annoying.

At this point, all I can do is wait, and hope. And hope and hope.

I felt like bad for snapping at him.

I ran up to the front door, and I didn't have to turn around to know that Cam would wait until I was inside before he drove away.

Don't you worry your pretty little head.

Lucas, I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. It's like when people say they have a funny story—like, just hurry up and tell the story and I'll decide for myself if I think it's funny or not.

I just need to burrow in my little hobbit hole for a while, and when I'm ready, I'll come out again and be all right.

Podría ser un gallardo soldado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, lo suficientemente guapo para que una chica esperara años por su regreso de la guerra, tan atractivo que ella podría esperar por siempre.

I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either... But one day maybe it will be.

He knows me well enough to know that I just need to burrow in my little hobbit hole for a while, and when I'm ready, I'll come out again and be all right.

Just because they did it doesn't mean we automatically are, or that he automatically even wants to." Does it? "He definitely wants to." Gulp. "Well, too bad, so sad, if that's the case. But honestly, I don't think it is." In this very moment I decide that Peter and I will the relationship equivalent of a brisket. Slow and low. We will heat up for each other over time.

A veces desearía que nos hubiéramos conocido a los veintisiete años. Los veintisiete parecen una buena edad para conocer a la persona con la que vas a pasar el resto de tu vida. A los veintisiete aún eres joven, pero con algo de suerte ya estás bien encaminado para convertirte en la persona que quieres ser.

maybe it's good to exist in a place of unsureness for a while.

Life is long if you let it be.

Maybe Anna needed to accept that mourning could be a slow process and that clock of grief ran at its own pace.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

It is important to remember that emotional pain comes in waves. Remind yourself that there will be a pause in between waves.

It is so easy now for the wife to be patient and kind to the daughter. She will never love anyone or anything more. Never. It is official.

These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.

In America, the participating partner is likely to spend an average of 1,000 hours processing the incident with the hurt partner. This cannot be rushed.

But for now my daughter and I stand shivering in front of the meat case. "I'm cold," she says. "Why can't we go? Why do we have to stand here?" There is some kind of meat I am supposed to buy. A kind of meat to go in a meat recipe. "We can go soon," I say. "Just wait. Let me think for a minute. You're not letting me think.

would give it up for her, everything, the hours alone, the radiant book, the postage stamp in my likeness, but only if she would consent to lie quietly with me until she is eighteen. If she would lie quietly with me, if I could bury my face in her hair, yes, then yes, uncle.