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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,
have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

 

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

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Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?...Like a marriage from which love has gone...And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

 

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Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

 

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