Quotes About Patience

Tell me what has happened in this week that you've been absent from my window.

Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day

Time is a blind guide.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Noah had never had to wait in line to go into a grocery store,

it is training to develop the courage, patience, and willpower necessary to do what is required in any situation regardless of whether it is difficult or easy, or what personal likes or dislikes arise in dealing with it. This training teaches us how to cope with major life crises—cancer, death of a loved one—the unpleasant things that are absolutely unavoidable.

Absurdities exasperated her. At the same time, the slow process of patiently leading recalcitrant thinkers to better thoughts by artful persuasions seemed to her a waste of time--a logical argument, cogently expressed, was surely sufficient to convince, and if it did not convince, then the case might well be hopeless and not worth pursuing.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

From the Garden" Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks. Let us consider the view: a house where white clouds decorate the muddy halls. Oh, put away your good words and your bad words. Spit out your words like stones! Come here! Come here! Come eat my pleasant fruits.

I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

You can't just pull anger out of a hat and make it work for you. You have to feel bad first. You always have to suffer

KNOWING when to quit may be my greatest victory.

Tiens, allons-y pour la septième raison de trouver que la vie est belle : cuisiner pour des gens qu'on aime en prenant son temps et en écoutant la radio.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.