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• Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

  Eden, Lap, Patient

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• We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Discipline, People, Needs

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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.

  Shannon Hale

  Halloween, Dressing Up, Faces

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.103, A&C Black

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• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Hurt, Boys

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

  Theophile Gautier

  Years, Meditation, Solitude

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

  Bram Stoker

  Mean, Men, Waiting

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.272, Prestwick House Inc

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• We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Business, Community, Answers

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• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Growth, Intelligence

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

  Janet Napolitano

  Commitment, Play, People

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• A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

  Andres Segovia

  Men, Oil, Lamps

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• The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Opposites, Honor, Religion

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark R, p. 245, 1732.

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• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Greek Philosopher, Figs

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Advantage, No Patience, Hurrying

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• Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Long, Effort, Community

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  Abdus Salam

  Data, Sublime, Quality

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific

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• Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Remember You, Remembers You

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Attention, Treasure, Pay

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• Be worthy love, and love will come.

  Louisa May Alcott

  And Love, Worthy

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blow, Tyrants, Victory

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• When you get mad, it's the time you lose

  Hiroko Sakai

  Mad, Loses

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• If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)

  Victoria Moran

  Practice, Discipline, Meditation

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• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Philosophy, Wrath, Justice

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.311, Booklassic

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• The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

  David Allen

  Keys, Balance, May

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• A life is not a waste of time

  Nalini Singh

  Waste, Wasting Time, Life Is

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.187, Penguin

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