"Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it."
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"It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient."
"Wise to resolve, patient to perform."
"Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born."
"We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else."
"The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient."
"More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words."
"Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility."
"Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."
"One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort."
"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status."
"Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate."
"[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them."
"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet."
"My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment."
"Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows."
"God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices."
"Patient endurance attends to all things."
"As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick."
"Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer."