“Love one another, but make not a bond of love; let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, for only the hand of life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together; for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of heaven dance between you.”

From "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran