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One
moment of patience may ward
off great disaster. One moment of
impatience may ruin a whole life.
Chinese
Proverb
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patience |
We use odd expressions to talk about patience that
make it sound like a quantifiable,
storable commodity like olive
oil, gasoline, or money in the bank: "I'm getting low
on patience." "My patience is coming to an end." "I am about to run out of patience."
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. . I don't think we have an internal reservoir in which we store
up Patience for a
time when we'll need it. I think it's more
like the energy-saving water heater I have
at my house.
There is no holding tank of hot water. The heater clicks on when I turn
the hot water tap on, and the cold water flowing
through it gets heated en route to
the shower. It keeps on
heating water as long as I'm using it, and then it clicks off
again. I don't need hot water in the middle of the night
while I'm sleeping,
and I don't need Patience then, either.
Sylvia Boorstein |
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There
is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the
time
we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention
to the story.
Linda
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I
have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, patience, and compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thought,
You return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,,
You accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.
Tao
Te Ching
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Practicing
patience is an opportunity to let go and let God, and to transmute
negative emotions into positive virtues. With patience, you
are relaxed
and centered; you have energy and attention that you can readily
draw
on; and you can proceed with the assurance that things are in
their rightful
place, even though you may not necessarily like them.
Patience is absolutely
essential if you wish to keep treading the spiritual path. . . .
Patience will keep
you centered, surrendered, detached, and content to just continue
with
the assurance that, "Yes, everything in its good time."
Michael
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Learn
the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when
they
become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds
anxiety,
fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates
confidence, decisiveness,
and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams |
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Patience
with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God
is Faith.
Adel
Bestavros |
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome
the company of trees.
Hal Borland |
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There
is no road too long to the person who advances deliberately and
without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the person
who prepares him or herself for them with patience.
Jean de la
Bruyere |
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The
greatest power is often simple patience.
Eli
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| Beware the fury of a patient man!
John Dryden |
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Infinite patience brings immediate results.
Wayne
Dyer |
| Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de la Fontaine |
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key to everything is patience. You get the chicken
by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasgow |
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Patience is the foundation of discovering
simplicity. Patience is a gesture
of profound kindness. . . . Patience teaches us to seek an inner
refuge
of simplicity, balance, and sensitivity even in the most turbulent
moments.
It is about learning to be a good friend to ourselves. . . .
Patience is one
of life's great arts, a lesson we learn not just once, but over
and over.
Christina
Feldman |
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The
aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not
blossomed. It
has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in
autumn it is
the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So
there are many
people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap
of their
natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming
time can
come; but their lives have not been wasted.
Henry
Ward Beecher |
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One
who is master of patience is master of everything else.
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