"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." – Mark Twain

 

“You take it all in. You let the pain of the world touch your heart

and you turn it into compassion. It is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta that heals.” -- The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa quoted by Pema Chodron in When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times