Quotes About Patience

He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

All sunshine makes the desert.

Listen, if you would learn; be silent, if you would be safe.

Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

And even if our dreams are delayed, detoured, or never come about the way we want, we can still hold on to the faithfulness of God.

Why? I mean, how could you know? I don't understand." "Nothing to understand. There is no great mystery in friendship. You brought yourself here, just as I brought myself here to wait for you. I don't even mind that you've kept me waiting.

He stood looking out past the certainty of the empty porch, but he couldn't imagine his father standing anywhere else. It was like listening for the phone to ring, wanting it to ring so badly you convince yourself that you can feel the person on the other end of the line, feel them dialing your number, but then you wait and wait, and it never rings.

To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps.

Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes. All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage by considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them; every day begin the task anew. —FRANCIS DE SALES

Ten paciencia con todas las cosas, pero sobre todo contigo mismo. No te desanimes por tus imperfecciones, más bien piensa cómo puedes remediarlas, todos los días con renovada intención.   FRANCISCO DE SALES

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA

Valha-me Nossa Senhora, Mãe de Deus de Nazaré! A vaca mansa dá leite, a braba dá quando quer. A mansa dá sossegada, a braba levanta o pé. Já fui barco, fui navio, mas hoje sou escaler. Já fui menino, fui homem, só me falta ser mulher.

We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.

nature starts many more projects than she can ever finish.

everything we've been through has been but preparation for finding our true love.

If, however, you learn to believe that The One is not only out there but is also looking for you, then you open the door for true love to enter.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

One swallow does not make a summer.