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"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
"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."
"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."
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"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."
"Great sadnesses, they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent."
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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