152 quotes found
“I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.”
“Being human we should bear all we can.”
“Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.”
“You can't have genius without patience.”
“The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.”
“How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“Don’t always wish it is easier to be done; wish you have enough power to make it happen. No matter how difficult it is, you can do it when the solution is in your palms!”
“If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.”
“Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far I had a good day. I got a dial tone.”
“Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.”
“The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the...”
“Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.”
“To everything there is a season A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep and a time to laugh A time to mourn and a time to dance.”
“Let nothing disturb thee Let nothing affright thee All things are passing God changeth never.”
“This too shall pass.”
“We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.”
“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.”
“I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....”
“Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.”
“If winter comes can spring be far behind?”
