Quotes tagged ‘Patience’

“You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best as I can...to be patient towards all that is unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they can…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It wi…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“I would’ve stayed till you opened up and let everything out…”

— Jay Asher, amazon.com

“That’s life for you… Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can’t hurt you no more.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”

— Jewel, amazon.com

“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”

— Emily Haines, musicomh.com

“It’s been said that love finds you when you’re ready.”

— James Patterson, amazon.com

“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

“It’s been said that love finds you when you’re ready.”

— James Patterson, amazon.com

“Maybe I’m getting tired – I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“You don't give up on the people you love.”

— Chuck Bass, imdb.com

“take your time. cleanse your heart.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, twitter.com

“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”

— Henry James, amazon.com

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that yo…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”

— Ray Bradbury, flavorwire.com

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”

— Erich Fromm, amazon.com

“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”

— Osho, goodreads.com

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com

“Lovers are patient and know That the moon needs time to become full.”

— Rumi, edenkeeper.org

“Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.”

— Elif Shafak, amazon.com