[I]f any one had asked what gifts she desired most, she would have answered with a look more pathetic than any shivering child had given her: “I want the sound of a loving voice; the touch of a friendly hand.” – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. РJulie-Jeanne El̩onore de Lepsinasse

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com