When you have patience you demonstrate the exercise of an insightful and practical perspective for waiting for future events to unfold.
When you are being patient you are able to demonstrate foresight about the future that allows you to successfully appreciate and interact with anticipated unfolding events.
Patience, therefore, is not some kind of passive process, but rather it is active, creative, and imaginative, and it plays a formative role in the development and expression of wisdom.
Learn to develop patience, as it is an important way to become wiser.
“Patience and wisdom go hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.” (Jarod Kintz, American author)
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” (Saint Augustine, 4th century Algerian theologian and philosopher)
“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” (Chinese Proverb)
Getting Personal
Have you ever been the object of impatience? Give an example. Would you, and ,if so, why would you describe this experience as an example of a lack of wisdom on the part of those who treated you impatiently?
Top of post quotation, by Jarod Kintz, American author
