Quotes About Reflection

Patience is the road to wisdom.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

What happens if I do nothing?

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

Tell me what's the difference

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

when you have the reasons, reason!

Take one day at a time, nurture each day, and the hurt will be yesterdays past.

As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.

No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

Hurry wounds a questioning soul.

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course.

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.