To learn to see - to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.