this landed on my heart . . .

When I was young, I asked more of people 

than they could give: everlasting friendship, 

endless feeling.  Now I know to ask less 

of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship.  And their feelings, 

their friendship, their generous actions 

seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous:  

a consequence of grace alone.

~Albert Camus, The First Man