Quotes About Patience

The secret is learning to accept people as they are, not as you wish them to be.

Two weeks later they met in Santa Rosa again, this time at a French restaurant in a vineyard, again small, where Brie could see every patron. And two weeks later, again Santa Rosa. When he first saw her, he wanted to rush to her, grab her up in his arms and hold her for a while, but he always put his hands in his pockets, smiled and nodded hello. By the sixth week and fourth lunch, she hugged him goodbye.

It would be nice if it were more certain and immediate, but the truth is—we have our worries, doubts and fears. We have to inch our way along. We have to discover trust. Sometimes we have to just believe in someone. And sometimes we have to know when to let them go.

Is there any way to keep them from paying for our mistakes?" "Yeah. They'll eventually make enough of their own to take the heat off. Meanwhile, we just have to stay strong and know we are doing the best we can.

Jack had some premonitions. His patience was going to be severely tested for the next several months. He was not going to be having much sex. John Stone, her OB, was going to think this was hilarious. He might have to kill John. "Well,

The only thing that could make him happier would be if they could become a real family—husband, wife and kids. This was still in its infancy and Abby needed time. But she liked him, he knew she did. She couldn't keep it secret. She liked him, depended on him, respected him. It was going in the right direction. He

I found him, I want to get to know him, I want to understand him. Everything. I want to understand everything. And that takes time. And there's no place I have to be right now.

I'm sorry, Cameron. Although really, it baffles me that you can even think of sex when you look at me." "I think about touching every single curve of your body. I think about kissing and tasting every part of you. I think about things I'm not allowed to do until after you deliver and mend. I can't stop thinking about all of that." "But you're allowed to hold me, right?" "I'm allowed to never let you go," he said. *

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

She worked as hard as possible but still was doing more rewriting than writing. She had wanted to have thirty pages after three days but she had nine.

I was in forever, not just until I didn't get my way.

I've been told I can be a lot to take. Especially lately…" He grabbed her hand before she could leave. "No, you're not," he said. "Maybe you should have another cup of coffee." She

The thing about nagging is that it's not nagging if you ask a person once. It only becomes nagging when you're asking for the fortieth time.

Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be.

No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday

Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year

But knowing the first step will get you knowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result.

Once again, my hands itched for my phone. My mom always complained I was addicted to the thing, but this wasn't true; I just didn't like sitting around with nothing to do, wasting time instead of spending it.

The Latham Time Warp. Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year.

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.

Because we are finite creatures who live in time, we cannot see things clearly. Be careful in judging others because the truth of their character and their situation may be hidden from your eyes. Only God knows the whole truth and only God knows the future. Don't expect all the answers now, but be patient and trusting and seek to grow in love. Each act of love is one more step in the long journey to our true and only home, unity with God in eternity.

She worries that her friends don't grasp that suffering is a normal part of life—even of part of a good life, in that suffering teaches us how to be patient, kind, and loving. She doesn't want them to give her advice about how to escape her problems; she just wants them to help her live through them.

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.