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 can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults — until you meet someone who likes your faults. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com