A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Henry Ward Beecher
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Margaret Mitchell