Patient Quotes - Page 7

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.

A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.