In the connections that fulfill us we discover how utterly open our hearts can be; in those that disappoint us we find out how tenderly vulnerable our hearts can become. In any case, it is ultimately between one heart and another that the manna of human wholeness is exchanged, bestowed, and blessed. How fortunate we humans are that love, just love, turns out to be the only dawn it takes to dispel our isolation.

David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them