Patience

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“    'Your beauty was the first that won the place,      And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart,      Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case,      Unkindly met with rigour for desert;—      Yet not the less your servant shall abide,      In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.'              WILLIAM FOWLER.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.”
― Seneca

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm