patient

With patient hope, we can endure any hardship.

Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings--the patient person doesn't feel a need to "fix" other people, and sometimes will let certain things slide until the other person recognizes the problems. Patient parents often let their kids make the same mistake two or three times because they know that a lesson learned oneself is almost always preferable to a lesson given to us by an authority figure like a parent.

Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my __imetable_ is too often a __able_ with two legs that won__ stand up no matter how much __ime_ I give it.

This was the desert, everything all at once, whether it was needed or not. What survived had learned to save, live carefully, and keep a low profile, even appear to be dead for long periods. Perseverance and patience.

having patience always gives you what you deserve.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

Prayer teaches us the grace of persistent effort.

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.

Patience isn__ simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.

Be patient in painful times.

Of course I__ like to marry a practising Muslim, someone I can share my life and also my religion with, but I just haven__ met the right man yet,_ I told her. Fadwa was sympathetic and understood my dilemma. __oncentrate on your relationship with God; purify yourself, your life and your intentions. Better your religion!_ she recommended. __f you are patient and steadfast, then you will be rewarded, insha_ Allah.

The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn__ happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not __eal events_. P3

Lying there in silence, Elim thought about how quickly a person__ fate could change, how precious life and health are. He had walked into this very room two days ago as a practicing physician, a man in control, with the power to heal, looking down on the sick American on the same bed where he himself now lay. He had never known just how different the world looked from the other side.He vowed that if he became well, he would cherish every day. And although he had never wished ill health on another person, there and then he wondered if every physician might benefit from being sick__eally sick__ust once. He wondered if it would make them all care a little more, or work a little harder, to have been on the other side for a while__o have placed their life and livelihood in the hands of a stranger, even if for only a short period. He had considered himself a very conscientious physician before this, but he imagined that if he lived, he would be even more dedicated to his patients.Staring at the ceiling, he was reminded of an old Indian proverb: A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one.