Quotes About Patience

we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many aeons it takes, is going to be all right.

Oh, my darling you are not dumb, her father answered. You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

I don't know. We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

Remember you have to go at his speed not your own...Adults take longer at this kind of thing then we do, particularly adults...who [haven't] tried new thoughts for a long time...but sometimes adults can go deeper then we can, if we're patient.

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

Un asno viejo sabe más que un potro. A. Perez. An old ass knows more than a young colt.

I'll be down at the foot of the road at seven o'clock. The high-school bus covers so much distance and makes so many stops it takes an hour and a half, and I get on at one of the first stops.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

Emmet, I love you. I'm so blind and stupid, thank you for waiting for me, for understanding.

Birisini sevince onu de?i?tirmeye kalkmak yanl?? bir ?eydi.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

She was still vaguely hopeful that there was love out there somewhere—just a little less sure that she might actually find it.

Slow Professors advocate deliberation over acceleration. We need time to think, and so do our students. Time for reflection and open-ended inquiry is not a luxury but is crucial to what we do.

Annie] "I just wondered … is slowly a good thing?" "Is slowly …" His fingers relaxed and she felt rather than saw his smile. He brushed his fingertips across her lips, then sank back to his pillow. "Oh yes, Annie love. Slowly is a very good thing." "Oh, my.

And home was where you planted flowers in the expectation that you would be there to see them bloom year after year.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

Jump right in, or wade in slowly. Advantage to one, it's over quickly. Advantage to the other, it isn't.

Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?