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Patience Quotes
"Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking."
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"Patience isn't simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait."
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television."
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"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
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"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, 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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"You don't have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near, it has been preparing for it all of its life."
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"So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now."
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"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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"I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be."
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"For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end."
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"It takes time to figure it out.Give yourself sometime.It took Abraham 100yrs."
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"I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for."
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
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"For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter - than - average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance."
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"Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them."
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"Keep calm when things don't go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!"
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"Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually."
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"By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . ."
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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
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"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."
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"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."
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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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"By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.So, of course, it came out to meet him."
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
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"History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena."
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