Quotes About Patience

Getting to know a difficult piece of music is comparable with getting to know a person who does not immediately reveal him- or herself, or who may appear to erect barriers against intimacy.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

You listened so patiently. I suppose I want to know. What do you think? You did what anyone would have done, I said. It was the closest thing to a benediction I could offer. The fact that I didn't think it true, didn't make a difference.

Will you be lighting the lamp, or is it the entire night you expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Mi affretto di dirti che aspetto la luna.

Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says: all you have left of her is your bitterness. Beat, heart…The earth has not swallowed everything.

La nueva miel labramos con los dolores viejos, la veste blanca y pura pacientemente hacemos, y bajo el sol bruñimos el fuerte arnés de hierro.

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Tantos años angustiado por la obsesión de terminar cuanto antes las cosas, de saltar de un minuto a otro como de un vagón a otro en un tren en marcha y ahora empieza a intuir que lo que le faltaba tal vez no era velocidad sino lentitud, paciencia y no confusa agitación.

Me he instalado en esta ciudad para esperar en ella el fin del mundo.

He continued to wait as if the force of his obstinacy would influence Judith's actions and will.

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.