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.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Old age is not meant to be survived alone, Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

Were in such a hurry most of the time we never get a chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.