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“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice”
John Burroughs
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.”
Turkish Proverb
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
Hal Borland
“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
Barbara Johnson
“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.”
Indian Proverb
“Genius is eternal patience.”
Michelangelo
“Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet”
Rainer Maria Rilke