Quotes About Patience

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

Don't worry about things that you simply cannot know. Let them fall back and recede like the foam pushed aside by the flanks of a ship. Leave them behind and let your heart power on.

but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own.

It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.

Do you know why you walk slowly when you're old?" "No." "Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you have, the more you suffer, the more you feel, the more you observe, and the more slowly time moves even as it races ahead." "I don't understand." "You will.

If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait until you are found. It will come. If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to their children.

A benevolent act is like a locust: it sleeps until it is called.

By this time, no matter how hard he tried to understand, Nicolò's eyes had begun to glaze, but Alessandro had no fear of bending green cane, because he knew it seldom broke. "Remember this, then—even if

Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once.

Nature may have even less patience than politicians.

Throughout all the years that I lived in South Africa, people were to call me a fool for refusing to live life the way they did and by doing the things they did. Little did they realise that in our world, the black world, one could only survive if one played the fool, and bided his time.  

It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

Patience devastates us with the truth that, in essence, when we fear another, we fear ourselves; when we distrust another, we distrust ourselves; when we hurt another, we hurt ourselves; when we kill another, we kill ourselves.

The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great disservice by judging where we are in comparison to some final destination. This is one of the pains of aspiring to become something: the stage of development we are in is always seen against the imagined landscape of what we are striving for. So where we are—though closer all the time—is never quite enough.

The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison.

For only when we can outwait the dark will the sharpness of experience recede like a tide to reveal what has survived beneath it all. Often what seems tragic, if looked at long enough, reveals itself as part of a larger transformation.

Since speed and confidence are the traits of success we are taught to strive with, it takes added courage to welcome time and humility into our lives.

To move from controlling to trusting life is like exhausting ourselves by trying to put our arms around a river until we realize we have to enter the river and let the current take us.

These are quiet braveries we all need: The courage to wait and watch with all of who we are. The courage to admit that we are not alone. The courage to hold each other to the ear of our heart. And the courage to care for things that are broken.

Live slow enough and there is only the beginning of time.

After all, the qualities required to be good with horses are the same qualities required to be good at life in general, and vice versa. Chances are

However, I don't think that we should let the task or goal become the end-all to a training session, either. If things aren't going well, maybe it's time to listen to what our horse is trying to tell us. It could very well be that he has the answer to why things aren't going well, and if we give him half a chance, perhaps he'll tell us what that is. I have seen so many horses almost

When he sees that you are giving him the respect he deserves, and the understanding he needs, he will start to trust you in return." She took a sip from her milk glass. "When you have his trust, you'll have the horse. Once he trusts you, putting the saddle on him won't be a problem.

We needed people who would give the horse the benefit of the doubt in most situations and who would think through a problem with a horse instead of just reacting to it. We wanted people who could think on their feet but who had soft hands and good hearts.