Quotes About Patience

December 24th, 1943 ...I long to have a really good time for once and to laugh so hard it hurts...Actually, I shouldn't even be writing this, since it makes me seem so ungrateful, but I can't keep everything to myself, so I'll repeat what I said at the beginning: Paper is more patient than people.

Papier ist geduldiger als Menschen. (S.18)

There is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end.

Papier ist geduldiger als Menschen.

Paper has more patience than people.

No nos queda más remedio que esperar con la mayor tranquilidad posible el final de toda esta desgracia. Tanto los judíos como los cristianos están esperando, todo el planeta está esperando, y muchos están esperando la muerte.

I shan't mind if you don't, he agreed. But I'll not let you go, Prudence. Til not pester you, but know this: I will wait until you choose to listen to your heart. Pshaw. It was a feeble effort. She took a deep breath and tried again. Humbug! How can you presume to know my heart? He smiled a slow, devastating smile. You are my heart. He lifted her hand and kissed it. And our hearts beat in tune. I know it—I, who used not to believe in such things. And you know it.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Now, if you ask me, what's going on is that we're all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.

Anne Lamott's priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.