"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself."
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"Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness."
"We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease."
"Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves."
"When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult."
"I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous."
"For sure, to be exact, one seventh of my patients never graduated my program."
"We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients."
"Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet"
"A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him."
"Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead."
"Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it."
"The patient needs an experience, not an explanation."
"Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries."
"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
"God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping."
"The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate."
"Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things."
"These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable."