“You just need to be patient. To not settle for average or mediocre. Because you are not average or mediocre, and you deserve to have the most beautiful love story in the world.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Wait for the one who will hurt you but only because the happiness is so great that your heart can't hold it in anymore, so joyful that your heartstrings start stretching uncomfortably.”— Abirami P. Kurukkal, instagram.com
“Don’t try to be cured; you will heal as much as you need to by yourself.”— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”— Libba Bray, amazon.com
“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”— Joan Erikson, nytimes.com
“There’s a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.”— Johanna de Silentio, goodreads.com
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that yo…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Dreams don’t often come true, do they? Wouldn’t it be nice if they did.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I’m much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That’s just the kind of person I am. I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that’s fine with me. I don’t mind at all. Better to be a first-class match…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“Persistence. Patience is nothing without persistence when developing art skills. Persistence is a big part of the solution when met with failures and setbacks. Most times the difference between a great artist and a mediocre artist is that one just keeps going when the other one gave up even if both…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“One of the reasons I love art is that it doesn't matter if we have all the money in the world. It can't buy us skills. And if you don't have all the money in the world, you can still develop your skills way past the richest person. We only need to put in time, effort and logic, and honing our craft.…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“In the media sea of this generation, we become so used to wanting something and as long as we have the money, we can get it right away. There's so many tutorials out there that show you simple techniques we all do to our art to make it look a little bit better or cooler to the average person. But th…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.”— Turcois Ominek, goodreads.com