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

People change and forget to tell each other.

 —Lillian Hellman

Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.

—Margaret Mead

Sticks and stones are hard on bones / Aimed with angry art, / Words can sting like anything / But silence breaks the heart.

—Suzanne Nichols

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

 —Frederick Buechner

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

 —Dinah Shore

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

 —Swedish Proverb

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

—Joan Baez

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.

—Todd Ruthman

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

—Albert Einstein

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

—Wayne Dyer

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

—Edmund Burke

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

—Stephen Levine