"A kind word can warm three months of winter." Japanese proverb

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." Rainer Maria Rilke

“If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hills

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." the Buddha