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"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."
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"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
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Personal Development
"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
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Personal Development
"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."
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Personal Development
"To lose patience is to lose the battle."
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"Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade."
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Personal Development
"All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair."
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Personal Development
"I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast."
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"Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person."
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Personal Development
"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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Personal Development
"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
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"My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am."
Spiritual
"I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!"
Spiritual
"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
Wisdom
"You have tasted of death now, said the old man. "Is it good? "It is good, said Mossy. "It is better than life."No, said the old man: "it is only more life."
Philosophy
"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."
Solitude
"It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless-he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value-a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag."
Morality
"It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others."
Love
"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
Acceptance
"The truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength."
Self-Improvement
"Punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification."
Discipline
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