Quotes About Patience

He had already learned there was only one day at a time and that it was always the day you were in. It would be today until it was tonight and tomorrow would be today again. This was the main thing he had learned so far.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But

Maybe I'll be able to later. I can do nearly everything later.

I wish I had a stone for the knife,» the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. «I should have brought a stone.» You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Think about something cheerful, old man, he said. Every minute now you are closer to home.

Don't think, old man,' he said aloud. 'Sail on this course and take it when it comes'. But I must think, he thought. Because it is all I have left.

But you have not slept yet, old man," he said aloud. "It is half a day and a night and now another day and you have not slept. You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady. If you do not sleep you might become unclear in the head.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

No. Rien à faire. Rien. Faut pas penser. Faut accepter.

You'll not fish without eating while I'm alive.

Ä°yiyim. Git sen. Ben biraz yataca??m. ÖÄŸleye doÄŸru kalkar?m. Ama Mr. Turner öÄŸle vakti William Campbell'in odas?na geldiÄŸinde William Campbell uyuyordu, Mr Turner da hayatta nelerin deÄŸerli olduÄŸunu bildiÄŸi için onu uyand?rmad?.

they're too big. If that doesn't offer a pleasure, then why do fishing?

Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly.

Ahora no es el momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

mér fanst þær fyrirgefa okkur þó við værum ásfángin og gift - það mundi altsaman lagast með tímanum

Onde iremos viver depois da guerra? - Provavelmente num asilo de velhos - disse ela. - Durante três anos esperei infantilmente que a guerra acabasse no Natal. Mas agora não espero já o fim dela senão para quando o nosso filho for major. ------ Henry e Catherine in O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times….The first draft of anything is shit.

You wanted the past changed, Reverend Martin," she told him. "Even He can't do that. So that leaves nothing but the future. We work toward the future.

Humility and obedience are two painfully misunderstood virtues that are really the arts of listening. Humility involves the refusal to coerce, the rejection of all attempts to control others.

We modern people are problem-solvers, but the demand for answers crowds out patience—and perhaps, especially, patience with mystery, with that which we cannot control.