“Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience? Not our friends. Our enemies give us the most crucial chances to grow.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.”
“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.”
Joseph Addison
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
May Sarton
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