Patience

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, well you can always buy chocolate :)

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

Inner quiet attended by stubborn self-renouncement is one of the hardest endeavours of the spiritual life.

“Quitting is not an option but resting is.”

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

“If people can be open-minded and magnanimous, be receptive to all, take pity on the poor and the old, assist those in peril and rescue those in trouble, give of themselves without seeking reward, never bear grudges, look upon others and self impartially, and realize all as one, then people can be companions of heaven. If people can be flexible and yielding, humble, with self-control, entirely free of agitation, cleared out all volatility, not angered by criticism, ignoring insult, docilely accepting all hardships, illnesses, and natural disasters, utterly without anxiety or resentment when faced with danger or adversity, then people can be companions of the earth. With the nobility of heaven and the humility of earth, one joins in with the attributes of heaven and earth and extends to eternity with them.”

“The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.”

“If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won’t be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold.”

“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things…Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.”

“Patience is the companion to wisdom.”

Leadership is seeing the oak tree in the acorn.

I believe a failure is that man that remains on the ground when he falls because he fears if he raises he might fall again, or that man that accept what people think of or call him, better still he is that man that thinks "that task is too big for me", " I can't Possibly do that", "It is not yet my time/turn". Because all these elude a man of the prize that awaits the activist.

Blessed...considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it. Finally,...whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. ...as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue: ...giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; to virtue knowledge; to knowledge temperance; to temperance patience; to patience godliness; to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

But let patience have perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

the art of being wise is knowing what to overlook

the art of being wise is knowing what to overlook

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

One ounce of patience is greater than a ton of pure gold; because patience is divine+

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

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.

Take more time, cover less ground.

Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deeply.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

To toughen up, is to calm down -Melvin

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and silently watch someone else do it wrong.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Do not despair at making no progress. The feeling of despair is also one of the lessons on the road to the Self.

A good listener helps us overhear ourselves.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures... Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Help us to be always the hopeful gardeners of the spirit
who know that without darkness
nothing comes to birth
as without light nothing flowers.

Be patient. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night. -- Charlie Brown

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

A coin makes a thousand coins in a thousand days.  In time, a rope may saw through a tree, and dripping water can wear away stone. 

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg - not by smashing it.

Patience and perseverance at length
Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

See your road through.

Nothing can take the place of persistence.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.

Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden.