Patience is strength itself. - Simone Weil
This quote I found in "quotations of the week" in The Week magazine. I can't seem to find that exact quote on the internet.
I'm curious about it. It doesn't say "patience is a virtue" or "patience makes you stronger," but equates patience to strength. That sounds like Gandhi or MLK. (though on second thought, both were interested in NOT being patient! Rather, they thought that direct action and a certain type of disobedience was the right way... so, I take that back.)
It makes me think of thinking about all virtues as "strength": prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude and faith, hope, and charity.
(In the standard list, the seven deadly sins according to the Catholic Church are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.)
On This Day (02/07):
- 2026-02-07: Patience is stength itself
- 2025-02-07: Bob Graham's Notebooks
- 2024-02-07: My research interests are reflected in my seven book projects to date
- 2023-02-07: 10 Gottman Relationship Ideas
- 2023-02-07: Gottman - Do Things Together
- 2023-02-07: Gottman - Plan Date Night
- 2022-02-07: On Toil
- 2022-02-07: Happiness and Its Causes
- 2021-02-07: On 6x10s and brief habits
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