Quotes About Patience

A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

It was much easier to expect nothing an be all right than to expect something and be disappointed.

Sometimes there's not much difference between a heartsick soul and a suck ole donkey.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.

I've never been so hungry that I was willing to lick honey off thorns.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

Well, dearest, what would you tell a farmer who had an over-abundant harvest? To plant less, of course!... I am not complaining about the frequency of the planting, she said. I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow

Fretting about time's passing will not slow it down one whit.

what Kamele's state of mind might be at this point in her relationship with Theo's father, he found himself reluctant to imagine. As she was a woman of great good sense, it was likely that she wanted to murder him—for which he would blame her not at all.

Where have I been while this person is leading my life with her patience, will and order? In the garden; on the bee and under the bee; in the crown gathering cumulus and flensing it from the boughs

Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty. It is not a harsh, straining, desperate effort but, rather, an ardent and wholehearted remembrance of our capacity for freedom. Right Effort is willingness to open where we have been closed, to come close to what we have avoided, to be patient with ourselves, and to let go of our preconceptions.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.

What's really transformative is our willingness to keep going, our openness to possibility, our patience, our effort, our humor, our growing self-knowledge, and the strength that we gain as we keep going.

relaxed perseverance.

It's better to do nothing than to waste your time.

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.

We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.

That's life: starting over, one breath at a time.

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