Live the questions now

Great advice to young philosophy students as well.

...have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet

More thoughts on patience:

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Molière

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace      

“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”
― William Faulkner

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”
― Christopher Hitchens