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"Patience is real self-mastery."
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"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."

"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."

"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."

"Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!"
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"I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur."

"The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air-the song of sweet, still silence rare."

"Life isn't always kind. It isn't gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone."

"None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn't stop anyone from trying to make the climb."

"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"

"Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving."
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