Quotes About Patience

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. Maybe they're just meant to be accepted.

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on.

You won't get what you want, Rory Swenson, until you see what you need.

Do not forget, life is a dance between making things happen and letting things happen.

So maybe it's not sad that Gran lives alone. Maybe it's a choice. "But what if it never rains again here?" I ask her. She makes a quick face—like a face she might make if I were blowing that whistle right in her ear. Then she says, "I guess I'll have to take that question one day at a time.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Even if we're here for no other reason than because we're here, I don't think it relieves us of deciding what our own purpose here is. I still have to figure that out, but I don't feel like I need to know right this instant anymore. I think I can wait to find out how many apples are inside me.

I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry around one or two, but we had to leave our backpacks on the bus.

Five years is a long time to wait. But if she could do all that when she was little, she must be able to do much more now. Maybe this time, she will find my answers. Maybe this time, she will get me home.

FIFTEEN MINUTES later

The seeds of doubt grow like weeds when given enough sun. Enough water. Enough nurturing.

the Beaux Arts building's grand Corinthian columns and its three immense archways. Two majestic marble lions served as bookends. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had named them Patience and Fortitude during the depths of the Great Depression in an effort to inspire his beleaguered New Yorkers, and Lacy had adopted them as her personal mascots. She looked to them now for the answers she sought, but Patience and Fortitude weren't talking.

He was still telling himself to calm down, patting his pockets for a Tootsie Pop—something he hadn't done all week—when he went into the closet and found Goldilocks surrounded by piles of his clothes and possessions, each pile organized and labeled with handwritten descriptions.

No one can understand why we are given certain circumstances in life, but we can only trust in his love and his way.

There's a season and there's a reason

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Biznis ou se tankou yon pye mango. Moun ki renmen mango yo te absan lèw tap konstwi pye mango pou l ka pwodui mango men moun ki renmen mango yo toujou prezan pou yo manje tout mango yo. Biznis ou se tankou yon pye mango.

Su negocio es como un árbol de mango. Los amantes del mango estaban ausentes cuando estabas luchando para construir el árbol de mango para que pudiera producir mangos, pero los amantes del mango siempre están presentes para comer todos los mangos. Su negocio es como un árbol de mango.

Your business is like a mango tree. Mango lovers were absent when you were struggling to build the mango tree so that it could produce mangoes but mango lovers are always present to eat all the mangoes. Your business is like a mango tree.

THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE!

You can't have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant

Fishing makes time stressful.

God is holding this planet, I'm wondering when he decides to let go.