Quotes About Patience

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time, and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

Time heals all wounds.

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

Time and tide wait for no man.

You'd be surprised what a person can live with," Dan said.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit.

It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old.