Be gentle first with yourself. - Lama Yeshe

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others, but probably earlier and anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
- Hippocrates (known as the "Father of Medicine")

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham