When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
- Topic: Adversity, Patience
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One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
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May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
A patient man will eat ripe fruit.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
