English Version | “Those who wait always succeed”

If there is a real saying, this is it. Patience is not everyone’s virtue and it is ever more needed these days. At a time when the world moves at the speed of light, being wise enough to know that timing is everything isn’t even a benefit, it’s a blessing.

After all, it’s not by chance that you can read in the Old Testament Omnibus ora certa est et tempus suum cuilibet caepto sub caelis (there is a right time for those who know to wait). And this isn’t just a physical wait, it’s mental as well: in the freedom one finds in the ends and lowlands of our minds, one can also find the resilience to know when to chase and when to lay upon a desert of thoughts which is only ours, waiting for the harvest of fruits that don’t take long, but take their own time.

Translated form the original on The Quote Issue, from Vogue Portugal, published April 2022.Full stories and credits on the print issue.