Patience is a Virtue — I Kid You Not

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don't know about you, but patience is not exactly my long suit.

It seems that everything that I want to happen has got to happen NOW! But it rarely ever does. And so I become even more impatient. An exercise in stupidity, I tell you. And in futility. And boy, do I pay a price for that impatience!

OK, so why am I letting you in on the seamier side of my nature? Why am I washing my dirty personal linen in public, so to speak?

Well, I've run across some great bits of wisdom on the blessings and wisdom of patience. And on the chance that you also lack patience, I'd like to share some of it with you.

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
— William Shakespeare

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
— Oriental proverb

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
— Mohandas Ghandi

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
— Arab saying

You're not defeated until you lose your patience.
— Robert Schuller

In any contest between power and patience, always bet on patience.
— Anonymous

Never cut what you can untie.
— Joseph Joubert

The slower you go, the farther you will be.
— Russian proverb

There's no escape from the rule that we must do many, many little things even to accomplish just one big thing.
— James Q. DuPont

To go faster, you must slow down.
— John Brunner

There you have it.Ten insights into the absolute, unqualified, critical need for patience culled from what is literally the wisdom of the ages. Chew on them. Taste them. Roll them around in your mind. Look at them from every angle. Their insights are as important to your well-being as are water and oxygen. I kid you not.

Thnk about it.