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Patience Quotes
"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."
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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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"Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes."
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"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."
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"These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top."
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"Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet."
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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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"The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do."
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"It takes patience to make a man - the patience to listen, watch and wait."
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"It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away."
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"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things."
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"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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"The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween."
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"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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"One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him."
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"Be patient with yourself. The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance."
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"Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it."
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"It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo."
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"Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards."
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"When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic."
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"Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years."
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"You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it."
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"Be patient, resentment will always reveal itself."
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"Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit."
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"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."
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"To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship."
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"I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key."
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"There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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"Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world."
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"Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with."
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"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."
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