“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.” – Pearl S. Buck

“To be alive at all is to have scars.” – John Steinbeck

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.” – Ian McEwan

“Cleverness is good, patience is better.” – Hermann Hesse

“Patience is also a form of action.” – Auguste Rodin

“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.” – Amy Poehler

“Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” – Anne Herbert

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

“One may go a long way after one is tired.” – French Proverb

“It’s your life – but only if you make it so.” – Eleanor Roosevelt