Jonathan Carroll Quotes

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.