“The greatest prayer is patience”- Buddha

I had a conversation with Someone Important tonight and it reminded me of a particular virtue...I think virtues will be a hot topic for me down the road...If you are alive and breathing you surely have practiced patience at one point or another in your life. I am a patient person, unfortunately sometimes I am not patient for a long enough time...Doesn't that make me impatient : )??? We sometimes find ourselves in an uncomfortable or frustrating situation and we just want out. This is a lot like being 90 seconds into a plank hold or tightening up in the 4th set of 60 yard sprints. Really digest that previous scenario. Think about the extreme discomfort you felt and actually put yourself their now...its easy to give yourself to much credit, but believe me when I say that if you can find me someone who hasn't quit early, I will surely pray to him at night. I have made myself victim at one point or another to the "It won't hurt me" or "I shouldn't feel to uncomfortable" type of mentality. I'm telling you that willingness to give in didn't make me better, it has only made me worse. Be patient, sacrifice a little to gain a lot. If it means falling or cramping up than do it, push through the frustration or the uncomfortable...you will thank yourself later. I'm challenging you, I'm challenging myself to be patient, to keep holding on and to keep churning those legs.

“Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” -Eknath Easwaran
-As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Paul Kane
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.” Rashaski
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
Buddhist Proverb
“Patience can conquer destiny”- Irish proverb
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”-Saint Augustin
“He that can have Patience, can have what he will”-Benjamin Franklin
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength”
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytto
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness
-Franz Kafka
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.-Isaac Newton
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
Thomas Kempis