Patience

“Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire