....patience?
2007-10-27 17:53:59 · 38 answers · asked by 100% ♥Creole♥ 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Patience is the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties.
Being able to wait is so hard that the greatest poets did not disdain to make the inability to wait the theme of their poetry. Thus [William] Shakespeare in his Othello, Sophocles in his Ajax, who, as the oracle suggests, might not have thought his suicide necessary, if only he had been able to let his feeling cool for one day more. He probably would have outfoxed the terrible promptings of his wounded vanity and said to himself: "Who, in my situation, has never once taken a sheep for a warrior? Is that so monstrous? On the contrary, it is something universally human." Ajax might have consoled himself thus.
Passion will not wait. The tragedy in the lives of great men often lies not in their conflict with the times and the baseness of their fellow men, but rather in their inability to postpone their work for a year or two. They cannot wait.
In every duel, the advising friends have to determine whether the parties involved might be able to wait a while longer. If they cannot, then a duel is reasonable, since each of the parties says to himself: "Either I continue to live, and the other must die at once, or vice versa." In that case, to wait would be to continue suffering the horrible torture of offended honor in the presence of the offender. And this can be more suffering than life is worth.
Cheers and have a nice week ahead :)
2007-10-27 21:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Larry L - Hi Everyone :D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Outgoing-Laid back- If you give more you receive more. In giving more time you are receiving
knowledge to you and others
understanding
possibly a friend
a different point of view
The list could go on and on. But patience is truly a virtue and could change lives. If only more people used it!
2007-10-27 18:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by amanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quiet
2007-10-27 17:56:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difficult.
2007-10-27 18:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by DAKal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stress. You have to have patience to deal with stressful situations.
2007-10-27 17:57:51 · answer #5 · answered by citsymtserof 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's something people tell me I don't have - but I haven't got the time to mess with this right now, can't you see I'm busy?!
2007-10-27 17:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nursing.
2007-10-27 17:56:48 · answer #7 · answered by Widgi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think of Me, taking care of my 4 kids, and my big teddy bear husband!
2007-10-27 17:57:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a mom standing in a long line at a shopping mall
2007-10-27 17:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by espresso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words "Calm" and "Relaxing" came to mind right away.
2007-10-27 17:57:23 · answer #10 · answered by Nicole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋