Patience is of two kinds: patience with what you dislike and patience in keeping away from what you love.
الصبر صبران: صبر على ما تكره، وصبر عما تحب
es-Sabru sabrân: sabrun alâ mâ tekrehu ve sabrun ammâ tuhibbu.
A saying attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib; Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 55.
There are two burdens.
One is what befalls you.
What you did not want has come and stands at the door.
You bear it.
The other is within reach.
The thing you love.
Reaching is easy,
not reaching is hard.
People call the first patience.
The second they hardly count.
And no one applauds it.
Yet sometimes
harder than enduring a pain
is not touching a sweetness.