Quotes About Patience

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

Nunca hay que anticiparse al resultado, porque entonces no verán el verdadero significado de lo que ocurre y no podrán percibir la emoción de lo inesperado. Antes había

Sloane los vio desaparecer bajo la superficie negra del agua. Y esperó. Una hora como mínimo. Nada. Los buceadores se tomaron un descanso. Vio que bebían café y hablaban con los demás policías. Después volvieron a equiparse y se sumergieron de nuevo en el río. Otra hora. Nada.

Es más fácil escuchar a alguien un rato e improvisar que sentarse día tras día y penetrar las capas de lo mundano y trivial en búsqueda de lo profundo.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—Not in lone splendor hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores.

Fishin' for whales is a nice gentle sport as long as you don't catch any.

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not to teach our children to read in their childhood we should not be so anxious about the effects of pernicious literature upon their adolescent morals.

Another part of you is already an old man, looking back on things. Waiting at the door for his granddaughter who's trying to make her way home for a visit. You are two people still separated by an ocean of time, part of you bursting to talk about what you saw, part of you longing to tell you what it means.

proluctance n. the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you've been looking forward to-opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who's finally back in town, reading a new book from your favorite author-perpetually waiting around for the right state of mind, stretching out the bliss of anticipation as long as you can.

idlewild adj. feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can't do much of anything—sitting for hours at an airport gate, the sleeper car of a train, or the backseat of a van on a long road trip—which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything at any time and

Rest is synonymous with grace, which is never seized by force but always taken hold of freely by faith.

The only thing worse than when nothing happens is when something does.

All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?).

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Remember all frustration is based on unmet expectations. If we did not expect anything we would not be frustrated.

Allie wondered why New Yorkers seemed to think that leaning on a horn might help clear a traffic jam. Many of them thrived on noise, she supposed. Maybe some people adapted to noise and then craved it.

Delays breed dangers.

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.