Even if we cannot actually remove the suffering of others how beautiful and skillful is this aspiration.
I take upon myself the burden of all suffering. I am resolved to do so, I will endure it.
I do not turn or run away, I do not wince, I am not terrified, nor afraid. I do not turn back or despond. […]
All beings I must set free. The whole world of living beings I must rescue from the terrors of birth, aging, disease, death and rebirth; of all kinds of moral transgression; of all states of woe; of the whole cycle of birth-and-death; of the jungle of false views; of the loss of wholesome doctrine; of the concomitants of ignorance; from all these terrors I must rescue all beings.
—Nagarjuna, Precious Garland
I take upon myself the burden of all suffering. I am resolved to do so, I will endure it.
I do not turn or run away, I do not wince, I am not terrified, nor afraid. I do not turn back or despond. […]
All beings I must set free. The whole world of living beings I must rescue from the terrors of birth, aging, disease, death and rebirth; of all kinds of moral transgression; of all states of woe; of the whole cycle of birth-and-death; of the jungle of false views; of the loss of wholesome doctrine; of the concomitants of ignorance; from all these terrors I must rescue all beings.
—Nagarjuna, Precious Garland
Cattāri Brahmavihārā 
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