You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love–I love–I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Patience in human love can translate into: “I love you for who you are, and even more for the person you have the potential to be, and for this reason I want to stay by your side and help you reach the best version of yourself.”

What’s beautiful about patient love is that it only gets stronger as time goes on. It’s a beautiful correlation. It’s like incense, the more it burns, the more fragrant it becomes.

Patient love means loving the seed even before it becomes the tree. It is only right that the patient gardener is given the fruits of the tree, they deserve they very best of it. They constantly watered and took care of it even when the seed was out of sight in the ground.