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"Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?"
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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
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"For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you."
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Personal Development
"Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them."
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Personal Development
"If you are willing to wait, you will get what you want."
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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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Personal Development
"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
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"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."
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Personal Development
"A delay want is never denial."
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Personal Development
"Don't be quick to get angry."
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"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."
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"All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one."
Mystery
"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."
Wonder
"It's like the British in Ireland in 1916' , says Oisir O'Dowd. 'The repeated the ageless macho mantra, "Force is the only thing these natives understand, so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed."
Conflict
"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."
Reality
"Survival often demands our courage."
Courage
"Pretending,' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.''But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'Madame Crommelynck studied her hands, moodily, both sides. 'Sophistry', she pronounced. I'm not sure what 'sophistry' means so I kept shtum."
Forgiveness
"I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People."
Support
"You only value something if you know it'll end."
Values
"But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person."
Mystery
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love."
Religion
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