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Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty, and life. Either way, you win.

If you feel like you’re losing everything remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.

Meeting a child’s aggression with adult aggression only adds fuel to the fire. To extinguish aggressive behavior meet it with calmness and compassion. Being calm isn’t passive—it’s mature. Be it to teach it.

It’s easy to judge. It’s more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate. Through understanding, we grow.

The most powerful thing you can do right now is be patient while things are unfolding for you.

We all have ‘issues’ because we all have a story. And no matter how much work you’ve done on yourself, we all snap back sometimes. So be easy on you. Growth is a dance. Not a light switch.

Your current situation is not your final destination.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret.

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Be patient. Good things take time.

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.

Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what you deserve.

Don’t make a permanent decision for your temporary emotion.

Stop beating yourself up.  You are a work in progress; which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Change is not a process for the impatient.

Patience is passion tamed.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.