When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
--Henri Nouwen
"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely." -The Land Before Time
"here we are. all of us, basically alone, separate creatures just circling each other. all searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. some look in the wrong places, some, they just give up. ... but all of us, we keep trying over & over again. why? because every once in a while, every once in a while two people meet & there’s that spark." -bones
