“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
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patience
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“While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.”
“To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.”
“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.”
“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.”
“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”
“For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”
“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.”
“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”
“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”
“I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.”
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
“I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”
“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
“Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.”