Quotes About Patience

Stafford was late again, as he had expected he would be late. He signaled the bartender and indicated his empty glass. He burrowed a little more securely in his separate awareness, he nestled a little more deeply into his private darkness, and he waited. In the long run, he thought, that is all one does; wait for people or keep people waiting.

Liefde is geen eindpunt, maar een proces, waarin de een probeert de ander te leren kennen.

The True, the Good, the Beautiful. "[...] They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--

You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to.

every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.

Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so. If you find yourself so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

How very still you sit!

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

She went on slowly and dreamily along the shore. Beautiful women do not need to hurry.

Sé que nunca me harías esperar, a menos que tuvieras una buena razón para hacerlo. Te esperaría pacientemente, para que pudiéramos disfrutar el resto de la velada. –No, la pregunta no se refiere solo a mí –dijo él–. Puede ser cualquier otra persona. –No hay otra persona –dijo ella–. No se me ocurre nadie más.

He told himself that it would soon be over: then he saw that tomorrow loomed, too, and – such was his mood – all the days of his life.

Really I don't dislike to cook, but what you cook is eaten so quickly. When you sew, you have something that will last to show for your efforts.

apoplectic. I let them stew

You tried. That was all you could do. All any of us can do....

Days? Had it only been days? Does the heart count days, or even hours?

You just have to be careful with Momma for a while," Teo told me. "She's broken. Like a jug with a broken handle that you try to glue back together. It looks all right, and it'll still hold water. It's still a good jug. But you better not ever try to pick it up by the handle. You have to wait for the glue to dry, and even then it might not hold.

Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.

Once, long years ago, I thought I could set a canoe-load of my people free by breaking the bands at my wrists and killing the white man who held the weapon. I had the strength in my hands to do such a deed and I had the fire within, but I didn't do it." "What held you back?" Amos shook his head. "My hand was restrained and I'm glad that it was, for the years between have shown me that it does a man no good to be free until he knows how to live, how to walk in step with God.

Never is a long time...and none of us lives to see its length.