Month: March 2026

“Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience.” – Chad Harbach

“If it is right, it happens — the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” – John Steinbeck

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and hope.” – Alexander Dumas

“Drop by drop is the picture filled.” – Buddha

“Nothing great is produced suddenly.” – Epictetus

“So much of this was patience — waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.” – Gary Paulsen

“Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” – Samuel Johnson

“Just be quiet and patient. Let evil and unpleasantness pass quietly over you. Do not try to avoid them. On the contrary, observe them carefully. Let active understanding take the place of reflex irritation, and you will grow out of your trouble. Men can achieve greatness only by surmounting their own littleness.” – Franz Kafka