#patience

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#mass-media #superficiality #media

It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they're supposed to be. I've been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes Wait respectfully in closets And soap dries quietly in the dish, And towels drink the wet From the skin of the back. And the lovely repetition of stairs. And what is more generous than a window? ↗

— Pat Schneider

#patience #love

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow, Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know. Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go right So I remain unruffled when others grow uptight. Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heart So I might hear the answer You are trying to impart. Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed until My heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know your will. ↗

— Helen Steiner Rice

#prayer #inner-peace

It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#inner-peace

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#become #blank #doubt #easy #find

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#bear #done #else #even #imperfection

Patience is passion tamed. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#patience #tamed

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#disagrees #easy #impatience #inspiration #movement

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half

Perfect love is perfectly patient. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#inspirational #love #patience #experience