“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” 

~  Barack Obama

I am grateful for what we can do, 

even when it seems inadequate and imperfect . . . 

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
~ Charles Dickens

“We only have what we give.”
~ Isabel Allende

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” 
~ Maya Angelou

“Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.” 

~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?” 
~ Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

“I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.” 
~ Demetri Martin