Quotes About Patience

Nu, nu, do as you must, her patient replied, as if her entire existence was but an endless series of pushbacks and rejections.

I'm sixty-eight" he said, "I first bucked hay when I was seventeen. I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life. And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

In the mountains it's cold. Always been cold, not just this year. Jagged scarps forever snowed in Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist. Grass is still sprouting at the end of June, Leaves begin to fall in early August. And here I am, high on mountains, Peering and peering, but I can't even see the sky.

As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for "new" theologies, "new" ways of worship, and "new" music, being quite willing to toss out their entire "old-fashioned" Christian heritage.

Still no word from Mel.

We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer.

Have you never thought as you read that months may lie between any pair of words?)

You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.

The process is the goal.

There isn't a someday. There never was. No one has ever been to the future that you keep putting your life on hold for. All we ever have is now.

There was always the next person, the next hope. A future in which I could dream myself whole without taking full responsibility for that wholeness, in the same way that many of us pin our hopes on the next diet, and the next after that. As long as we keep hoping someone is coming, we keep waiting. As long as we believe the answer is out there, we don't have to turn around and discover it now.

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

There isn't a someday. There never was. No one has ever been to the future that you keep putting your life on hold for. All we ever have is now. And if you continually put your life on hold for what your life will be like tomorrow, or the next year, or when you finally lose the weight, you won't recognize that you already have what you want because you will have spent years training yourself to want, not have.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' This is Tarkovsky's aesthetic in a nutshell.

Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye!

la virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia.

For Solomon says that, 'He who is not patient shall meet with great harm.

With all humility and abstinence, with all temperance and patience, with modest bearing and appearance was she. Discreet in answering was she always.

For the Wise Man says, "If you fight with a fool, whether the fool be angry or merry, you will never have rest.

Antes de que cese el trueno, cae la lluvia.»

For the common proverb says thus, 'He who judges in haste shall soon repent.

Lo, what says Saint Augustine: "There is nothing so like the Devil's child as he who oft chides others." Saint Paul also says, "It behooves the servant of God not to chide.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER