Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Garth Brooks

Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so.

Tara Brach

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Langston Hughes

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson