Quotes About Patience

T. S. Eliot wrote, 'Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.' We long for this, and yet we check our smartphones every ten minutes for news, texts, distraction.

Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?

Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended.

Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations

Timeon had quite possibly been traveling a long time, Mearme thought with no compassion.

None of my family is good at being patient. It's why we all become doctors.

The AI told her not long ago that her Why? period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every Why? in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask that particular Why? again. After a month Why? wasn't fun anymore, and she went on to other things.

What I know I wish I didn't. What I'd give anything to know, I have to wait and see.

Avery did not know what Jean was thinking, only that there was intense thought behind those eyes filled with tears. It was not only her weeping that moved him, but this intensity of thought he perceived in her. Already he knew that he did not want to tamper, to force open, to take what was not his; and that he was willing to wait for a long time for her to speak herself to him.

True hope is severed from expectation.

I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality. I promise not to pry into your loneliness, never to tear at the bud with frightened fingers to make sure there is a flower inside. I believe in the flower.

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greed, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.

sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.

And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

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Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be. There will be a great many things you can achieve not by attacking them but with a little patience and a modicum of flattery. Stop to consider what it is you really want, rather than pursuing your anger or your vanity to charge in. So often we leap to passionate judgments—when if we but knew the one thing more, they would be so different.

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I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!