I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
With love and patience nothing is impossible.
No I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
As for goals I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
Have patience with all things But first of all with yourself.
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills parenting cooking elaborate meals purchasing a grown-up bed jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.
I want to have children but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
It's human nature to be curious about people and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh blah blah blah I'm wearing Hermes blah blah blah I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need a tribe recognition: 'Ahh my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively from a distance and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world and at myself from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.