Philosophy on patience
6 passages from 5 thinkers — Lao Tzu, Confucius, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rainer Maria Rilke — on patience.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”