Quotes About Patience

Septimus longed for a glimpse of Marcia. He wanted to see her face at the window, to know that she was all right... He longed to tell her that there was still hope. "Hold on as long as you can. Don't give up. Please don't give up.

Marcia verwachtte Silas terug met haar Beschermring. Jenna en Nicko verwachtten een bericht van Silas. Maxie verwachtte zijn ontbijt. Jongen 412 verwachtte moeilijkheden.

Dingen hebben de gewoonte om vanzelf in orde te komen, zie je. Uiteindelijk - Marcia

You are not to go out until something has been done about this Sickenesse.

Marcia's fine," said his older self. "And that is all you want to know right now.

He had left Marcia searching the Palace for Septimus, who appeared to have skipped an exam, much to Silas's admiration. At last his son was settling down and acting like a normal boy.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

One breath at a time is an acceptable plan, she tells herself.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were rooms yet to enter or books written in a foreign language. Don't dig for answers that can't be given you yet: you cannot live them now. For everything must be lived. Live the questions now, perhaps then, someday, you will gradually, without noticing, live into the answer. Worpswede, July 16, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

What should I say about your tendency to doubt your struggle or to harmonize your inner and outer life? My wish is ever strong that you find enough patience within you and enough simplicity to have faith. May you gain more and more trust in what is challenging, and confidence in the solitude you bear. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right in any case. Furnborg, Jonsered, Sweden, November 4, 1904 Letters to a Young Poet

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.

Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Axiomatically, hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. The propaganda goes all the other way, but only because it is the tortoise who is in need of consolation. Like the meek who are going to inherit the earth.

I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.

Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.

If in this lifetime, I wont get to have you, I'll make sure that if I meet you in my next life I wont have to think twice on saying that "I waited a lifetime to say I love you...

Most of the time the only difference between winning and losing is not quitting.

I just have no patience with people who ignore the Do Not Call list, so I also have no qualms about hanging up on them.

Tell Don Orione to have patience, patience, patience, for it is with patience that miracles are worked." From that day, one of the special works of this saintly priest and his followers has been the help and support of priests in trouble. They do not preach to them, or attempt any rational arguments. They simply try to win them back by showing them Christian charity.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place