Quotes About Patience

Geben Sie jedes Mal sich und Ihrem Gefühl recht, (...) sollten Sie doch unrecht haben, so wird das natürliche Wachstum Ihres inneren Lebens Sie langsam und mit der Zeit zu anderen Erkenntnissen führen. Lassen Sie Ihren Urteilen die eigene stille, ungestörte Entwicklung, die, wie jeder Fortschritt, tief aus innen kommen muss und durch nichts gedrängt oder beschleunigt werden kann.

Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.

Live the questions now. Perhaps you then may gradually, without noticing, one day in the future, live into the answers.

One must never despair upon losing something, whether it's an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. (Letters on Life)

Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.

Os filósofos deveriam ser pacientes e esperar, e não querer fundar uma soberania, nem um reino que se mantenha com os meios do seu tempo. Eles são os reis do vindouro, e as suas coroas ainda são unas com os minérios que enchem as veias das montanhas...

Do not observe yourself too much. Do not draw too hasty conclusions from what happens to you; just let it happen. Otherwise, you start to look accusingly (that is, morally) upon your past, which is naturally involved in everything you now encounter. But whatever part of the errors, wishes, and desires of your boyhood is working in you, that is not what you remember and condemn.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

and knowing now who I was and where I was and knowing too that I had no longer to run for or from the Jack's and the Emerson's and the Bledsoe's and the Norton's...but only from their confusion and impatience and refusal to recognize the beautiful absurdity of their American identity...and mine...

The unheard sounds came through, and each melodic line existed of itself, stood out clearly from all the rest, said its piece, and waited patiently for the other voices to speak.

Can I say in twenty minutes what was building twenty-one years and ended in twenty seconds?

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

The years teach much the days never know.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The years teach much which the days never know.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

It is better to hear than to speak.