“Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for something, especially something you crave and dread at the same time.”

“Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.”

“When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.”

“I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an infant, really, I was at the mercy of others. Hour after hour of my life was spent waiting.”

“You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are eleven, twelve, but every year you see that what you thought you understood a year ago, no, wait it is ten times worse. And your heart fills up with lead.”

“You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.”