If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage
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The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
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When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.
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Impatience kills quickly.
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What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.
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A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
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Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
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Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
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Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?
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