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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
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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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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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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Have
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
de Sales |
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Patience
is the companion of wisdom.
Saint
Augustine |
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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
Emerson Fosdick
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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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Patience
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.
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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
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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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One
who is master of patience
is master of everything else.
Lord
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If
I have made any valuable discoveries,
it is owing more to patient attention
than to any other talent.
Isaac
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How
poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William
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The
greater our hurry, the longer the way;
the greater our patience, the sooner we reach the goal.
German
proverb |
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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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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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They
who can have patience can have what they will.
Benjamin
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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
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Patience
is learning how to wait when you really don't want to. It's
discovering things you like to do while you're waiting, and becoming
so happy with. . . what you're doing
that you forget
you're waiting.
Patience is taking time every day
to dream your dreams
and develop
the confidence in yourself
to change your dreams into reality.
Patience
is being good to yourself
and having the faith to hold on to
your dreams,
even as days go by when you can't see
how they
will come true.
Patience is loving others
even when they disappoint you
and you
don't
understand them.
It's knowing how to let go
and accept
others as they
are
and forgive them for things they have done. Patience is loving
yourself and giving yourself time to grow; it's doing things that
keep you
healthy and happy, and it's knowing that you deserve the best in
life
and are willing to work for it, no matter how long it takes.
Patience is being willing to face whatever challenges life gives
you,
realizing that life has also given you the strength and courage to
endure
and deal with each challenge. Patience is the ability to
continue to love
and laugh no matter what your circumstances may be, because you
recognize that in time those circumstances will change, and that
love
and laughter are what give life deeper meaning, and you the
determination to continue to have patience.
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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.
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On
the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference
between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest
people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the
patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.
John Ruskin
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