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.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Desireless, serene, immortal, self-existent, contented with the essence, lacking nothing, is He. One has no fear of death who has known Him, the Atman - serene, ageless, youthful.
Not the dogma, not the books, not the scriptures, what matters is your attitude to life.
If you are a compassionate person and you are radiating compassion, then others are bound to receive those radiations of compassion from you.

