March 1

“Impatience and impetuosity of will were corrected, as indeed every other fault of character can alone be corrected, by the constant exercise of the virtues which balanced and controlled them, hope, patience, faith, and the renunciation of self. Patience she calls the touchstone of all the virtues.”

From Catherine of Siena

“There are two sorts of patience; the one by which we bear up in adversity, which is fine and beautiful; but the other, that by which we understand the commission of evil, is better.”

“To understand everything would be to pardon everything.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“On the whole it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail, in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the strong.”

RUSKIN