Quotes About Patience

You know what Confucius said?" "Remind me." " Ã¢â'¬ËœBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' 

You know what Confucius said? Remind me. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

Without time, nothing had meaning. Never before had I understood how crucial the passage of time was to caring about something. It gave it an expiry date, a wick, a rush, a burn. Without it, everything sat in place, dumbly waiting. In

Take all the time you need.

On se calme comme on peut.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here's the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of—to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming. . . . These people are waiting for a bus on a street where no busses pass. . . . They can end up waiting forever. And that is what most people do. BRIAN TRACY   

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

Until the end, God's people are to wait patiently and serve diligently. In this life we are to suffer courageously and serve humbly like Jesus did during his incarnation, trusting that all will be made right in due time.

The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

When Jack was returning to America from his years in Thailand, he sought out an elderly Western monk and asked him if he had any advice about being back in the West. "Only one thing," said the monk. "When you're running to catch the subway and you see it leaving without you, don't panic, just remember, 'There's always another train.

From a Buddhist perspective, there is really nothing but resistance to be analyzed; there is no true self waiting in the wings to be released. Only by revealing the insecurity can a measure of freedom be gained. When we can know our fear as fear and surround it with the patience of Buddha, we can begin to rest in our own minds and approach those to whom we would like to feel close.

I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

Sit still long enough and everything will come to you.

We had a lot of argumants like that. Because I often thought I couldn't take any more. And your father is really pacient but I'm not, I get cross, even though I don't mean too. And by the end we stopped talking to each other very much because we knew it would always end up in an argumant and it would go nowere, And I felt realy lonley.

Fu tentato di iniziare un altro dei regali di Natale ancora non letti. Ma bisognava lasciare che l'atmosfera di un libro si diradasse, prima di buttarsi nel prossimo [...]

Lidi napÃ…â"¢íklad ?asto Ã…â"¢eknou "Bu? zticha," neÃ…â"¢eknou vám ale, jak dlouho máte být zticha.

Depend on it, there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way.

They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace, and the young listened to their elders, who told them in their dancing to hold on, to love, to be patient, and most of all, to trust.

I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.' 'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.