Quotes About Patience

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

The best way to make something last is to believe that it won't.

It is the same God, no? Le bon Dieu can find me when He wants me, I am sure.

People shouldn't second guess God. If everything happened for a reason, it was usually too difficult to figure out what that reason was. Better to just accept things as they were, deal with them and enjoy the weather when it came, stay inside when it rained.

He doesn't need to be fixed," Lockie said. "You can't look at it that way. It's a process of discovery, of letting Kyffhäuser develop into the athlete he wants to be and can be. It's nothing that can be rushed. He got to this point because he was pushed every step of the way. That training has to be undone for him before he can make progress.

Sometimes, the more you stir it, the worse it stinks.

When you're in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It's not as exciting as being a television star, but it's not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you're finished resting.

How many minutes is shortly?" I asked. "Is it one minute or eight minutes or eleven minutes? On account of if it's one minute, I can wait, probably. But eleven minutes would be out of the question." Mr. Scary walked back to my desk. And he sat me in my chair. I glanced up at him. "All I'm looking for is a rough estimate," I said.

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.

We can only go blundering along in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call us.

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I think there's a special saint who protects unfinished projects. Unfinished projects are just as valuable to us as the projects we finish.

While "intention" is a magnet that attracts what we want, "letting go" provides the space for our desire to manifest.

More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

You may produce lunch two hours late, but you make it worth the eating, Janie.

It changes, but in some lives change is a long time coming.

Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

The problem with research, of course, was knowing when to stop. "One must stop before one has finished," she advised, "otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

It's up to the owner to make sure elimination actually happens. If [he doesn't eliminate right away], go back inside, crate the pup for five minutes or so, then take him out and try again.

When you set him down, keep the leash loose and, if possible, out of his mouth. This is not playtime. Stand with him, moving him back and forth in a small area; 15 square feet is the maximum. If he's showing you how well he can sit, running a few steps may inspire him to get up. But you're not going anywhere. This is not a walk; it's "go potty" time.