Idle Your Motor

I'm in need of patience these days. I'm in a transition phase right now; I'm shifting gears; I'm changing directions. And not just a slight veer to the left or the right. More like a u-turn. It's not happening as quickly as I would like, and I need to remain patient. So today's blog is a study in patience and what it means to wait patiently. Who likes to wait? No one. But sometimes that is exactly what we have to do.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas Père -

Patience is the companion to wisdom.
- St Augustine -

Let nothing disturb thee; let nothing dismay thee; all things pass; God never changes. Patience attains all that it strives for.
- St Teresa of Avila -

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy -

He that can have patience, can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin -

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignation, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
- Corazon Aquino -

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
- Ralph Marston -

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
- Barbara Johnson -

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.
- unknown -

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
- Arnold H. Glasgow -

Patience is passion tamed.
- Lyman Abbott -

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
- Elliot Paul -

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
- Buddhist Proverb -

One minute of patience, ten years of peace.
- Greek proverb -

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -