Patience...

"Patience, children, just a minute--
See the spreading circles die;
The stream and all in it
Will clear by-and-by."

--Robert Louis Stevenson in Looking Glass River

For the first time...

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot -- "Little Gidding" (the last of his Four Quartets)