Quotes About Patience

La hoja es mucho más paciente que los seres humanos.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life. Don't wait for it, I said. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Yes, you have told me, over and over again, in a hundred different ways, but I am slow, Anaïs, slow perhaps because it is such delicious torture.

Anaïs:] Your two letters on cellophane just arrived—of the 7th. Don't even sign your name now. No mention of my name. Not a word of love. If I hadn't received your cable I would be stark crazy by now.

You ought to write my books. How can anybody do anything in three weeks? To do that one must be a god. God took a week to create the world. I take my hat off to him too. It's stupendous. Unbelievable. Let it stay that way.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

It was possible that when the climbers were ready, the mountain wouldn't be

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

I had forgotten I was alone; I sat there, waiting for nothing, oblivious to the time.

Que chaque attente, en toi, ne soit même pas un désir, mais simplement une disposition à l'accueil. Attends tout ce qui vient à toi, mais ne désire que ce qui vient à toi. Ne désire que ce que tu as.

Toutes choses sont dites déjà ; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.

Look! I have here a number of white pebbles. I let them soak in the shade, then hold them in the hollow of my hand and wait until their soothing coolness is exhausted. Then I begin once more, changing the pebbles and putting back those that have lost their coolness to soak in the shade again. . . Time passes and the evening comes on. . . Take me away; I cannot move of myself. Something in my will is broken.

And if I live badly, whilst I'm waiting to decide how to live?

In irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.

There is nothing more tragic for a man who has been expecting to die than a long convalescence.

Natanael, am s?-È›i vorbesc despre aÈ™tept?ri. Am v?zut câmpia dup? arÈ™iÈ›a verii, aÈ™teptând; aÈ™teptând un pic de ploaie. Praful de pe drumuri devenise prea uÈ™or È™i fiecare adiere îl stârnea. Nu mai era nici m?car o dorin??; era o temere. P?mântul cr?pa de secet? pentru a primi mai bine ploaia. Miresmele florilor de câmpie deveneau aproape de nesuportat. Totul leÈ™ina sub soare.

?i totuÈ™i, de multe ori, fiind cât pe-aici s? culeg o bucurie, i-am întors brusc spatele, aÈ™a cum ar fi putut face un ascet. Nu era vorba deloc de renunÈ›are, ci de o aÈ™teptare, atât de des?vârÈ™it?, a ceea ce putea fi acea bucurie, de o anticipare atât de împlinit?, încât realizarea nu m? mai putea înv??a nimic.

I slide to my knees and say, Please let this be over. Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.

It's been six months, Nancy.' 'What's your hurry? It took me a year to get used to living with Carl. I mean, what do men do anyway? They work, eat, drink, and play games. Sex for them is in the sports and recreation category. You can't live with a man and not be lonely.' 'You think so?' 'Absolutely. Besides, once you have kids, it all changes anyway. Everything seems to make sense then.

Un cafè non s'arrefuta mai.

There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead.

If this had been any other racetrack, I would have packed my bags and left.