Quotes About Patience

Please excuse this slow-witted talabeh, who will have to read the text and the margins several times to make sure he gets today's lesson right.

Ler rapidamente aquilo que o autor levou anos para pensar é um desrespeito. [...] Há frases que resumem uma vida. Por isso é preciso ler vagarosamente, prestando atenção nas idéias que se escondem nos silêncios que há entre as palavras.

poema de Chuang-Tzu, escrito séculos antes de Cristo: "Eu sei que não terei sucesso. Tentar forçar os resultados somente aumentaria a confusão. Não será melhor desistir e parar de me esforçar? Mas, se eu não me esforçar, quem o fará?".

Isso é sonho, que anuncia que é preciso esperar mesmo quando não há esperança. Ou, talvez, um pouco mais: que é preciso viver como se os sonhos impossíveis fossem acontecer...

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Gandhi said, 'There is more to life than speed'. Unfortunately he didn't tell us what, he just left us hanging while he pranced around in his nappy. To

Raising a teenager makes the terrible twos seem like a holiday in Hawaii.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

The toad beneath the harrow knowsExactly where each tooth point goes;The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.

I have days when I think to myself, "You know, I'm gonna give everyone a break today." You should try it sometime. Have a "Give Bitches a Break" day.

The point of the journey is not to arrive.