John Burroughs Quotes

There will be an answer. Let it be.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

My life lesson is just to be patient and everything will fall in place. Most of what's happened in my life is not to do with me but good people and the way things happened. So I feel it's no use stressing over anything. Let things simply happen.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

One must wait till it comes.

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.