Pema Chodron Quotes

Grace under pressure.

Being patient is one of the big things I've focused on.

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Possess your soul with patience.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

Our duty is to be patient.

Patience, increasing patience

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Have patience, and endure

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.