Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

A watched supper dish never fills!

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

Take more time, cover less ground.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.

It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.