Be a Master of Patience

 

A person who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile [paraphrase]

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey     

Flexibility

A person who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile [paraphrase]

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey     

Remain Flexible

 

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

- George Savile

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Resistance creates suffering.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey

    

There is No Virtue in being Unbending

 

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

- George Savile

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Resistance creates suffering.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey

    

Become a Master of Patience

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

- George Savile

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Resistance creates suffering.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey

    

Self-Inflicted Prison

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Prisoner of Habit

Fly Free

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
     

Meet Obstacles With Gentleness And Time

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

Enjoy the Journey

The River of Life
    

Overcome Obstacles with Gentleness and Time

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey
    

Wisdom of Patience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Mastering Time

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Rattlesnake of the Mind

Model Nature's Patience
      

Prison of a Closed Heart

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Fly Free

Prisoner of Habit

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
     

Prison of the Closed Heart

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Prisoner of Habit

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Fly Free
 

Bend Life with Gentleness and Time

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Further reading: Hold on... Joyfully

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey
    

The Wisdom of Patience

Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's Affirmation:
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: Mastering Time

Model Nature's Patience

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Rattlesnake of the Mind

Unbending

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Today's affirmation:
I practice non-resistance.
I accept the wisdom of God
in creating the world exactly as it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Hold on... Joyfully

Seven Tips for Stress-Free Living

Choosing to Love Life

The River of Life

Enjoy the Journey

Life is Love

Master of Patience

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's Affirmation:
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Mastering Time

Model Nature's Patience

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind - jlh

Urgency

Time

Are You a Prisoner?

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Prisoner of Habit

Fly Free

Prisoner

Jailer

Obligation

Forgiveness

Everything Happens In Its Own Time

Everything happens in its own time.
- old proverb

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Keep moving.
Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life

Have Patience

Never Give Up on Life

Just Do Your Best

Fortitude

Progress

Patience

Time

Have Patience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Today's Affirmation:
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Overwhelm

Go With the Flow

Patience quotes

Nature

Secrets

Time

Urgency

Self Control

Patience

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- jlh

Further reading: Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Time, Like Life Itself, Has No Inherent Meaning

Quotes about Being Patient

Quotes about Hurry

Quotes about Time

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. - George Savile

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

Patience, persistence, and perseverance. A little more each day, a little better each day.

Further reading: Go With the Flow

Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

Hurry?

New Beginning

Never too old