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Quotes About Patience

We are all looking for, but we find what we are looking for only by being looked for. We find miracle only when we stop looking for magic.
~ Ernest Kurtz
Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience.
~ Ernest Shackleton
The most important things in life rarely come with urgency. It may seem counter intuitive, but the most important things in life are easily pushed to the back burner.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
For our lives to be works of art, we need to allow a lifetime of work. We must give God the time to make us works of art. We must press close to God and allow both the tenderness of his touch and the pressure of his hands to shape us and mold us into someone we would not be without him.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.
~ Erwin Rommel
Dios nos conduce por el eterno camino de la sabiduría, y la verdad sólo se aprende a costa de sufrirla.
~ Esquilo
Todo lo enseña, con la vejez, el tiempo.
~ Esquilo
El futuro, cuando suceda, lo oirás. De momento déjalo correr, no llores antes de hora, pues claramente llegará con los rayos de la aurora.
~ Esquilo
If you can't do, you had best shut up. He started to slam the door, thought better of it. If you can't do, you'd best not slam doors.
~ Esther Forbes
Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: "We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.
~ Esther Perel
Some relationships originate in feelings of warmth, tenderness, and nurturance, and the partners choose to remain in these calmer waters. They prefer a love that is built on patience more than on passion. To them, finding serenity in a lasting bond is what counts. There is no one way, and there is no right way.
~ Esther Perel
Getting what we want undermines the thrill of wanting it.
~ Esther Perel
I have met plenty of men who were the lovers of married women (or married men, for that matter). But I have yet to meet a man who was single and gave his love to another man's wife for thirty years, hoping that she would leave and come and make a family with him.
~ Esther Perel
Justice. There is only one thing for which a knight has no patience: injustice. Every true knight fights for human dignity at all times.
~ Ethan Hawke
One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
~ Etty Hillesum
Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help.--Spoken by Jack to Gloria
~ Eudora Welty
I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I may have wanted to, but beginning to write stories about people, I drew near slowly; noting and guessing, apprehending, hoping, drawing my eventual conclusions out of my own heart, I did venture closer to where I wanted to go.
~ Eudora Welty
Her father left his questions unasked. But both knew, and for the same reason, that bad days go better without any questions at all.
~ Eudora Welty
We haven't the time to take our time.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Megérteni annyi, mint megbocsátani.
~ Eugene Ionesco
SpuneÅ£i repede, domnule, c? n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihn?.
~ Eugene Ionesco
You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!
~ Eugen Herrigel
being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!
~ Eugen Herrigel
The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.
~ Eugen Herrigel