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- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
- Proverbs 25:15
- Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
- Peter Marshall
- Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Unknown
- If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
- Dorothy Law Nolte
- If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), "If"
- Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- Charles William Dement
- The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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