| Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . . Live the question now. | |
| — Rainer Maria Rilke | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Patience’
But I Have So Many Questions…
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Heart, Love, Patience, Philosophy, Questions, Quotes, Rainer Maria Rilke on February 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Try Hard
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Heart, Love, Patience, Philosophy, Questions, Quotes, Rainer Maria Rilke on January 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »
| Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. | |
| — Rainer Maria Rilke | |
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Learning Three Treasures
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Compassion, Education, Lao Tzu, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, Simplicity, Treasures on August 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
| I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. | |
| — Lao Tzu | |
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Lighting The Way To Unity
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Light, Love, Malcolm X, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, Understanding, Unity on December 28, 2023| 2 Comments »
| We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. | |
| — Malcolm X | |
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Even A Trickle Wears Away The Stone
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Difficulties, John Quincy Adams, Obstacles, Patience, Perseverance, Philosophy, Quotes on May 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »
| Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. | |
| — John Quincy Adams | |
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Thinking About My Sister
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bravery, Creating Yourself, Family, Finding Yourself, Fury, George Bernard Shaw, Happy Birthday Sis, Helen Keller, Jean de la Fontaine, Joy, Patience, Philosophy, Strength, Time on April 5, 2023| 2 Comments »
| We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. | |
| — Helen Keller | |
| Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. | |
| — Jean de la Fontaine | |
| Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. | |
| — George Bernard Shaw | |
| [Happy Birthday, Sis!! — kmab] | |
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The Arc Of Justice Sometimes Bends Too Slowly
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Hurry, Justice, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, Rivers, Winnie the Pooh on August 9, 2022| 2 Comments »
| Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day. | |
| — Winnie the Pooh | |
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Three Treasures
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Compassion, Lao-Tzu, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, Simplicity, Treasures on May 30, 2022| 2 Comments »
| I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. | |
| — Lao Tzu | |
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But It’s A Slow Form
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Action, Auguste Rodin, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes on April 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
| Patience is also a form of action. | |
| — Auguste Rodin | |
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Right Up Until Armed Insurrectionists Attack Congress
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged American Politics, Belligerence, Education, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, Simple-Minded on March 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »
| Be patient with the belligerence of the simple-minded. It’s not easy to understand that one doesn’t understand. | |
| — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | |
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Farming Lessons
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Alain-Fournier, Crops, Education, Farming, Henri-Alban Fournier, Oxes, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, School Of Patience on February 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »
| Life on the farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. | |
| — Henri-Alban Fournier, (aka: Alain-Fournier) | |
| [I’d hazard the same is true for formal education (K through 12 / BA / BSc) and civilizing children / young adults. — kmab] | |
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Tomorrow President Biden Starts Wrestling
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Alligator Wrestling, American Politics, Brains, Harold Washington, Leadership, Patience, Philosophy, Problems, Quotes, Swamps on January 19, 2021| Leave a Comment »
| Most of our problems can be solved. Some of them will take brains, and some of them will take patience, but all of them will have to be wrestled with like an alligator in the swamp. | |
| — Harold Washington | |
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Inshallah
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Courage, Faith, Patience, Philosophy, Quotes, Victor Hugo on January 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »
| Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. | |
| — Victor Hugo | |
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Like #45 And Many Of His Supporters
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #IncompetentDonald, Edith Sitwell, Patience, Philosophy, Politics, Pride, Quotes, Stupidity on February 28, 2020| 2 Comments »
| I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. | |
| – Edith Sitwell | |
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Sometimes I Still Have Trouble Sleeping
Posted in Faith, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Courage, Faith, God, Great Sorrows, Humor, Patience, Peace, Philosophy, Quotes, Sleeping, Victor Hugo on October 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. | |
| — Victor Hugo | |
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