Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong...because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."  ---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A  friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been ,accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow
 
WIlliam Shakespeare

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can."-  John Wesley

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death --Leonardo Da Vinci

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees --Kahlil Gibran

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind --Leonardo Da Vinci

There are different types of patience: the patience of being indifferent to the harm inflicted by others the patience of voluntarily accepting hardship, and the patience developed through reasoned conviction in the Dharma -Dalai Lama

If you have fear of some pain or suffering , you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can , there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything , then also there is no need to worry