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"You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."

"Patience is real self-mastery."

"If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance."

"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."

"Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it."

"Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent on her needles and her silk, some discussion meantime going on around her, in the course of which peculiarities of character are being developed, or important interests canvassed; she takes no part in int; her humble, feminine mind is wholl with her knitting; none of her features move; she neither presumes to smile approval, nor frown disapprobation; her little hands assiduously ply their unpretending task; if she can only get this purse finished, or this bonnet-grec completed, it is enough for her."
Explore more quotes by William Faulkner

"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

"Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."
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