Quotes About Patience

Y ahora, un poco de paciencia, sin apremios: me la han destinado y algún día me pertenecerá.

What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

God can cause us to forget all our toil and make us fruitful even in the land of our affliction. That

Expect Nothing

They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In

The strange thing about being a mother is how often I'm interrupted. Like something is happening and then something else is happening. It is difficult to get a good grasp on things.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Is love like a mineral, to be chipped away with every new problem or deficiency?

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety. (In his introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety. (In her introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Who hopes for an hour hopes for eternity. The world in an hour. What follows is unseen.

What can't be cured must be endured.

He was her warrior to be loved and waited for and she would take what little of him she could get and wait for the rest.

Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?

During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got going, he closed his eyes and waited until her smile came back. He allowed himself to believe in that smile, that brilliant counterfeit of joy

Happily, the benefits of training in meditation arrive long before mastery does.

Everything we want to accomplish—to paint the house, learn a new language, find a better job—is something that promises that, if done, it would allow us to finally relax and enjoy our lives in the present. Generally speaking, this is a false hope.

Although the insights we can have in meditation tell us nothing about the origins of the universe, they do confirm some well-established truths about the human mind: Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.