APAD: Patience is a virtue.

Meaning:

To be able to wait for something without becoming frustrated is a valuable

character trait.

 

Background:

It is similar to the Latin expression, maxima enim, patientia virtus (patience

is the greatest virtue).

 

... Around the same time or shortly after Piers Plowman, Chaucer wrote in The

Canterbury Tales that "Patience is a high virtue... but virtue can hurt you."

(The Franklin's Tale)

 

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I have observed patience and time, the greatest warriors, at work in some

sports, e.g., distance running, weight-lifting, and jiu-jitsu. Those who don't

try to outsmart time and simply put in the work day in and day out make progress

before they know it. Those who set off in a hurry and couldn't wait to get ahead

end up learning the truth or quitting in injury.

 

"Virtue can hurt you" sounds also true, especially when timing is a decisive

factor in the outcome. While waiting, one needs to keep alert, bright-eyed and

bushy-tailed.

 

Patience is what I need：）

It took me no time to understand y patient is called patient

at my first visit of the doctor's clinic

Me2 :-)

Good things come to those who wait

Trying not to get sick, I prefer the Canadian HealthCare.

Thanks for “bright eyed and bushy tailed“!

Virtue can hurt you! Very true too!

Like a squirrel :-)

"I've waited, but how long can you and old Jack boy wait?"

- Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs.

我怎么觉得你的patience真是数一数二了：）

Thank you but you should see me clearing a clogged drain :-)

恒久忍耐，又有恩慈。想起一首歌～～

"but virtue can hurt you", so we need a balance :)

so 2 timepoints, before point 1, is hurry, between 2 points-

is patience, after point 2 is missing ~~

The song of Job? :-)

Avoiding pain is not always the point.

Patient in the bigger scale of things. Sounds right.

是一首经典歌曲：

 

Just came back from Costco, waited long time in line ...

wish I had a phone and read your comforting APAD then ... ;-) 

Thank you! I'd bring Dickens with me :-)

"As a species, human beings define their reality through

misery and suffering." - Agent Smith. The Matrix.

凡事都有定期。生有时，死有时。哭有时，笑有时； 哀恸有时，跳舞有时。受苦有时，享受平安喜乐也有时。

Just in time! Yay!

一切忍耐，一切宽恕！

Never send a human to do a machine's job. -Agent Smith :-)