One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Patience has all the time it needs.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

Be a river - not a reservoir.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.