Quotes About Patience

Miz Fitz, If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven. -Hellbound, a Lass Miz Fitz sez: You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.

schedule takes into account that sometimes

is purposely conservative. You have little to gain by rushing back into training,

juggle days around from time to time. That's expected, and as long as you don't try to make up for lost time by doing several hard days in a row, you should be able to avoid injury and overtraining. By following

12. Time Urgency. I am not in danger. I do not need to rush. I will not hurry unless it is a true emergency. I am learning to enjoy doing my daily activities at a relaxed pace.

Functional parents liberally and patiently greet their children's eagerness to participate and help regardless of the fact that this usually makes tasks take longer. Functional parents also "child-proof" their homes during the toddler stage (by moving all dangerous and breakable items out of reach) instead of systematically punishing and extinguishing their children's healthy curiosity and adventurousness.

Self-mothering is a resolute refusal to indulge in self-hatred and self-abandonment. It proceeds from the realization that self-punishment is counterproductive. It is enhanced by the understanding that patience and self-encouragement are more effective than self-judgment and self-rejection in achieving recovery.

Or they might struggle with agitation, hyperactivity, nightmares or sleeplessness. Such symptoms can try one's patience, especially when caregivers don't have a clue what is causing their child to behave in such unpredictable and disturbing ways.

The time it takes to establish a sense of calm is time well spent.

After decades of war and months of virus-fueled isolation, the people of Uíge did not waste energy.

first time and then waited some days before they reread it.

I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid, epigram in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly

Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it. As I reflect on my own experience and that of many others far wiser than I, God seems willing to help that process along.

Reading the book of Proverbs on child rearing is like paying good money for financial advice and being told after ten sessions, "Here's what I've come up with. Invest your money wisely, and you will be set for retirement." I was hoping for stock tips.

no one lives in the scripted places of the Bible all the time, where God shows up as planned, tells us exactly what we need to do, and things work out