The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Paulo Coelho

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

And sure enough, even waiting will end… If you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Joseph Fort Newton

We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

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