Quotes About Patience

Waiting is something you get used to when you're Native American.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

doing nothing often leads to the very best of something

How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.

Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.

But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.

By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

Judy went back to Paulie's place, but either he wasn't home or he wasn't answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she'd probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she'd taken the time to actually have a few friends.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lengthy cocktail hour.

Segala yang dihasrat tapi tak didapat adalah nikmat yang paling padat.

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn't an act of impatience, it's an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.