"Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
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"All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for."
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"And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow."
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"A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us."
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"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper."
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"Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted."
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"I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key."
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"All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy."
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"Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk."
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"If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that."
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"Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides."
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"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
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"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."
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"Patience wins the race."
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"Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled."
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"Abused patience turns to fury."
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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
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"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."
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"Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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