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- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde
- Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. — Henri Nouwen
- 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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. — Henri Nouwen
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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. — Henri Nouwen