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Quotes About Patience

The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always see it. What we see is an almost moon or a not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there's only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
~ Alice Sebold
How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.
~ Alice Steinbach
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.
~ Alice Walker
El tiempo se mueve despacio, pero pasa deprisa.
~ Alice Walker
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.
~ Alice Walker
Si viene, yo feliz. Si no, contenta. Y entonces caigo en que puede que ésta sea la lección que yo tenía que aprender.
~ Alice Walker
La experiencia. Más tarde o más temprano, todos acabamos por tenerla. Para eso, lo único que hay que hacer es ir viviendo.
~ Alice Walker
She was someone who could not be rushed. This seems a small thing. But it is actually a very amazing quality, a very ancient one. She did everything at just the same pace as before, she could tell the time of day or night by the moisture in the atmosphere, and she went about her business as if she would live forever, and forever was very, very long. That is the kind of mujer my mama was. When you look at me you see her, but I have lost 'forever'; therefore I sometimes hurry.
~ Alice Walker
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly
~ Alice Walker
I've learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker
Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
~ Alice Walker
Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say.
~ Alice Walker
Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.
~ Alice Walker
To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.
~ Alice Walker
Then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. _ done ast me to marry him again, this time in the spirit as well as in the flesh, and just after I say Naw, I still don't like frogs, but let's be friends, Shug write me she coming home. Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.
~ Alice Walker
But cheer up. Who could have imagined What the world is really like When we were children? We're old now, but in spite of all we learned, So much of it dreadful and scary, even Petrifying, We gave Life Our best shot. Perfection will have To wait for the next incarnation. And I mean of the world, not just us.
~ Alice Walker
She was someone who could not be rushed. This seems a small thing. But it is actually a very amazing quality, a very ancient one. She did everything at just the same pace as before, she could tell the time of day or night by the moisture in the atmosphere, and she went about her business as if she would live forever, and forever was very, very long.
~ Alice Walker
I knew how much my mother loved me by her love and patience with my child.
~ Alice Walker
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
~ Alice Walker The Color Purple
When we don't have all the facts, it's easy to jump to the wrong conclusion.
~ Alice Walsh
Children ask questions piecemeal because they take their time to make sense of the information they receive. They know what they can manage and stop asking when they had enough. It is a good
~ Alicia F. Lieberman
Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.
~ Alison Goodman
Linda was keen to try, but musicianship and songwriting did not come easily to her, and she quickly discovered that she could not count on master classes from her highly accomplished husband. "No, he is not a good teacher, Paul," she said in a frank moment. "He has no patience what-so-ever with somebody who doesn't know. He
~ Allan Kozinn
Ça ne fait rien"4 (or "It does not matter," more loosely translated as "Don't worry, we'll sort it"). Paul and Linda heard Richards's comment as "San Ferry Anne," a phrase they adopted to mean "don't worry," and true to form, McCartney began toying with the phrase as the title for a new song.
~ Allan Kozinn