Importance
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace.
― Brian Weiss
Patient
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
Pay Attention
Why is patience so important?
Because it makes us pay attention.
― Paulo Coelho
Patience Mantra
When I choose to be patient with myself,
I deepen self-love.
~Ann Ruane
Relationship Q&Q
The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
― Pandora Poikilos
Weakness
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
― Deepak Chopra
Assumptions
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
― Henry Winkler
Reveal
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
― Steve Maraboli
Fully Seen
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
― Elizabeth Gilbert
