top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Patience quotes

"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."

"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."

"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."

"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."

"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."

"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."

"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
Explore more quotes by Haruki Murakami

"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."

"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."

"There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again."

"I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else."

"There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone."
bottom of page