Strange how hard it rained

For the first time in a long time I want to believe in God. Last time I really remember wanting to believe I was in the passenger seat of my mother's car, it was dark outside, I was scared and alone and I wanted a friend. I was 15 then and I guess that says a lot about how easy my life has been, and still is. Now I want to believe in God because I wish I had something comforting to say, even though I know it would still hurt. This is not to say that I feel inadequate, just that I wish there were some God damned comfort in the world. Something beyond what I could give. Something to balance out the pain. Maybe it's not so much that I want to believe in God, it's that I wish there were a God. I wish there were a God because I wish for those things for my friends.

On the other hand, I know that the best we are going to get is each other, and that can be as good or as bad as we make it. I know that people can be kind when the world is cruel. Whether it comes in the form of flowers, cards, gummy bears, smiles, hugs, airplane tickets, or phone calls; if we can get outside ourselves long enough to notice other people's sorrows, it makes us gentler and more compassionate creatures. And it puts some other things into perspective so that petty things are no longer such a big deal. Yes, you can often see the best in people when the world is at its worst, but sometimes I feel like our best just isn't good enough. I guess all we can do is give what we have, and then keep on giving.

I kept on looking for quotes, and didn't find any that seemed to help. This is as close as I got...

There are three things which are real:
God, human folly, and laughter.
The first two are beyond our comprehension
so we must do what we can with the third.

That is from the Ramayana. To make this quote true for me I would alter the first two things. I would switch God to beauty or something else, and I would cross out the word "human" so that it was just talking about the folly of the world. But I do believe that bit about laughter and how doing that and trying to make ourselves and each other happy is about the best we can do.