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Our
real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains,
losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
-Joseph
Addison
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Patient
people enjoy the pleasure of saying to whoever is feeling
anxious about delays--restaurant servers, clerks waiting on
the telephone to get your credit card verified, dry cleaners
who were sure your sweater would be ready--"It's okay.
These things happen." Patience, in a rushed world, is a
shared relief. Witnesses to patient transactions,
as well as participants, all get to calm down.
-Sylvia
Boorstein
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patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections,
but instantly set about remedying them--
every day begin the tasks anew.
-Francis
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If
I have made any valuable discoveries,
it is owing more to patient attention
than to any other talent.
-Isaac
Newton
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| Patience
is power. Patience is not an absence of action;
rather, it is "timing"; it waits on the right
time to act, for the right principles and in the right
way. -Fulton
J. Sheen |
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and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater
value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently
waiting.
The sun, having set, comes up. The tide ebbs, but always
flows in again. -Fred van
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| Nothing
great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes
or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer
that there must be
time. Let the tree first blossom, then bear fruit, then
ripen. -Epictetus |
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| When the hard times of life come, we know that no
matter how tragic
the circumstances seem, no matter how long the spiritual drought,
no matter how long and dark the days, the sun is sure to break
through;
the dawn will come. The
warmth of His assurance will hold us in an embrace
once again, and we will know that our God has been there all
along.
We will hear him say, through it all, “Hold on, my child, joy
comes in the morning!”
-Gloria Gaither |
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who can have patience can have what they will.
-Benjamin
Franklin |
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greater our hurry, the longer the way;
the greater our patience, the sooner we reach the goal.
-German
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Patience
is neither weariness nor dreary surrender. It is a
positive virtue,
the capacity to wait for opportunity. . . .
There are many images that portray patience:
The lioness waiting
in the
high grass for her prey to pass by, making no movement for
hours except for
gentle twitches of her tail. The old monk
waiting
for God; the ancient eyes
filled with wisdom, his mind and body
filled
with tranquility. Another image
is the picture of the slow
growth of
the solid oak tree. Imperceptibly, little
by little, the
acorn becomes
a tree. Slowly--that's how it becomes so strong. We live in a time when speed seems to be
essential. Fast trains,
fast cars,
fast walking, fast-food restaurants. Even our
perception of
growth is speeded
up with the use of the stop-frame camera.
There is nothing wrong with speed in itself, but a
question is forced
upon us.
Does speed necessarily require us to be
unreflective? If so,
then we are rushing
into lives that are not reflected upon, not
examined. This is dangerous.
Perhaps we do have to make room for
patience in
our lives--a little room
to breathe. Patience.
Patience. -Edward
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How
poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William
Shakespeare |
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The
most extraordinary thing about
the oyster is this.
Irritations get
into its shell. It does not like them.
But when it cannot get rid of them,
it uses the irritation
to do the
loveliest thing an oyster ever has
a chance to do.
If there are
irritations in our lives today,
there is only one
prescription:
make a pearl. It may have to be
a pearl of patience, but, anyhow,
make a pearl.
And it takes faith and love to do it.
-Harry
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| Life
on the farm is a school of patience;
you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
-Henri
Fournier Alain |
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| There is no road too long to the person who
advances deliberately
without undue haste; no honors too distant to the person who
prepares him or herself for them with patience.
-Jean La Bruyere |
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| Flowers
do not force their way with great strife. Flowers
open to perfection slowly in the sun. Don't be in a
hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and
be very sure. -White
Eagle |
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| Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as
clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have
no power
to hurt you. So in
like manner you must grow in patience when you meet
with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci |
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is a necessary
ingredient of genius. -Benjamin
Disraeli |
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Only
those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly
will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
-Johann von
Schiller
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Patience
is the companion of wisdom.
-Saint
Augustine |
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It
does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year
to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale
blue iris.
It seems altogether right and appropriate that these
glories are earned with long patience and faith. . . . and also
that
it is altogether right and appropriate that they cannot last.
Yet in our human relations we are outraged when the supreme
moments, the moments of flowering, must be waited for. . . .
and then cannot last.
We reach a summit, and then have to go down again.
-May Sarton |
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One
moment of patience may ward
off great disaster. One moment of
impatience may ruin a whole life.
-Chinese
Proverb |
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We use odd expressions to talk about patience that
make it sound like a quantifiable,
storable commodity like olive
oil, gasoline, or money in the bank: "I'm getting low
on patience." "My patience is coming to an end." "I am about to run out of patience."
. .
. . I don't think we have an internal reservoir in which we store
up Patience for a
time when we'll need it. I think it's more
like the energy-saving water heater I have
at my house.
There is no holding tank of hot water. The heater clicks on when I turn
the hot water tap on, and the cold water flowing
through it gets heated en route to
the shower. It keeps on
heating water as long as I'm using it, and then it clicks off
again. I don't need hot water in the middle of the night
while I'm sleeping,
and I don't need Patience then, either.
-Sylvia Boorstein |
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There
is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the
time
we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention
to the story. -Linda
Hogan |
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Practicing
patience is an opportunity to let go and let God, and to transmute
negative emotions into positive virtues. With patience, you
are relaxed
and centered; you have energy and attention that you can readily
draw
on; and you can proceed with the assurance that things are in
their rightful
place, even though you may not necessarily like them.
Patience is absolutely
essential if you wish to keep treading the spiritual path. . . .
Patience will keep
you centered, surrendered, detached, and content to just continue
with
the assurance that, "Yes, everything in its good time."
-Michael
Goddart |
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Learn
the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when
they
become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds
anxiety,
fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates
confidence, decisiveness,
and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
-Brian Adams |
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Patience
with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God
is Faith. -Adel
Bestavros |
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I
have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, patience, and compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thought,
You return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,,
You accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.
from
the Tao Te Ching
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome
the company of trees. -Hal Borland |
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There
is no road too long to the person who advances deliberately and
without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the person
who prepares him or herself for them with patience.
-Jean de la
Bruyere |
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The
greatest power is often simple patience.
-Eli
Joseph Cossman |
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Beware the fury of a patient
person! -John Dryden |
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Infinite patience brings immediate results.
-Wayne
Dyer |
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Patience is the foundation of discovering
simplicity. Patience is a gesture
of profound kindness. . . . Patience teaches us to seek an inner
refuge
of simplicity, balance, and sensitivity even in the most turbulent
moments.
It is about learning to be a good friend to ourselves. . . .
Patience is one
of life's great arts, a lesson we learn not just once, but over
and over. -Christina
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Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
-Jean de la Fontaine |
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The
aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not
blossomed. It
has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in
autumn it is
the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So
there are many
people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap
of their
natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming
time can
come; but their lives have not been wasted.
-Henry
Ward Beecher |
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The
key to everything is patience. You get the chicken
by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
-Arnold H. Glasgow |
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One
who is master of patience is master of everything else.
-George Savile |
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No
great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes
or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you
that there must
be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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