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Theme of Zoom Meeting: Patience
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©2021 by Richard E. Gordon      Last updated: June 15, 2022
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Questions:

1. What is the meaning of patience?

2. What is the greatest example of patience you have ever witnessed?

3. Does success depend more on patience or desire?

4. How can parents teach patience to their children?

5. What hobbies can you embrace to make you develop more patience?

6. Can schools teach patience?

7. What makes a person more likely to be patient? Nature (genetics) or Nurture (life experiences including how you were raised)

8. Do women or men seem to be more patient?

9. Can you have too much patience?

10.Can non-human animals show patience?

11.Tell about a famous person who showed great patience?

12.As we grow older, are we less likely to show patience?

13.How can impatience cause accidents?

14.How do you manage to pass the time when you have to wait much longer than you anticipated?

15.Is there anything you might take with you to help you endure a long wait?

16.Can you tell us about an incident where you wish you had shown more patience?

17.Under what circumstances do you find it most difficult to exercise patience?

18.How can the impatient learn to be patient?

19.If you had a very impatient grandchild graduating from high school, what jobs would you NOT recommend for him/her?

20.What new insight, have you reached about patience as a result of today’s discussion?

Quotations:

1. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” Saadi

2. “The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” Croft M. Pentz

3. “Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.” Bruce Lee

4. “A successful physician needs both patience and patients.” REG

5.  “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”  Albert Einstein

6. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller

7. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” Joyce Meyer

8. “Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.” Francis de Sales

9. “The ultimate mysteries are opened only to those who have immense patience” Osho

10.“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.” Jon Kabat-Zinn

11.“Patience is like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the greater it becomes.” Frank Sonnenberg

12.“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” Fulton J. Sheen

13.“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” Arnold H. Glasgow

14.“Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.” Allan Lokos

The End