“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil

“While we do our good works, let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world which charity will have become unnecessary.” – Chinua Achebe

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.” – David Foster Wallace

“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