Quotes About Patience

To understand your beloved ones, you need to know feelings language, emotions-language, love-language, body language, compromise language, and lastly, the silent language that's the final step to journey, inwards the soul. Be patient with pure and sincere devotion that leads you together forever.

To wait is an uttermost, and unpleasant weight.

Travel upon the time, never let the time, for travel upon you.

Waiting earns two results; disappointment or enjoyment.

Waiting means, one gambles every minute of its life.

You can break and hurt anyone in many ways; however, to treat and cure is only the way of love and sober conduct that needs purity of heart and mind.

Here--you warriors--why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? Our time hasn't come. Have you no patience? Are we not the 'trodden weed' still? The time is not yet here for us to raise our heads. Must you still complain?

What if the bird will not sing? Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!" Hideyoshi answers, "Make it want to sing." Ieyasu answers, "Wait." This book, Taiko, is the story of the man who made the bird want to sing.

I laugh at my ten-year pilgrimage— Wilted robe, tattered hat, knocking at Zen gates. In reality, the Buddha's Law is simple: Eat your rice, drink your tea, wear your clothes.

muddy water is often made clear if allowed to stand still.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Do you need me? Always, but not immediately.

He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.

As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.

Here if you need me. We'll write it back and forth until something major happens. Or one of us dies.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Let nothing upset you; Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills every need. – Teresa of Avila Radiant

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.

Let Nothing Upset You Let nothing upset you; Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills every need. – Teresa of Avila

Whatever the flavor of our anger – irritability, rage, stubbornness, belligerence, or sullen silence – it can all be transformed into compassion and understanding. Those we live with will certainly benefit from that, and so will we.

The schedule was always tight, but he was never in a hurry. Not once, then or since, did I see him pressured into speeding up to get more done in the time available. By his example, he was constantly teaching what he knew from experience: the most effective way to accomplish a lot is to do one thing at a time and do it well.

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secure within, we do not have to look to externals for satisfaction. No matter what happens outside--whether events are for or against us, however people behave towards us, whether we get what pleases us or do not--we are in no way dependent. Then it is that we can give freely to others; then it is that we can love.

Patience means self-mastery: the capacity to hold on and remain loving in a difficult situation when every atom of your being wants to turn and run. ? Perversely, the more we try to run from occasions that might cause us grief, the more we add to our burden of it.