EVERYONE NEEDS SOMEONE

People need people and friends need friends

And we all need love for a full life depends

Not on vast riches or great acclaim,
 
Not on success or on worldly fame,

But just in knowing that someone cares

And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers

For only the knowledge that we’re understood
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good,

And we rob ourselves of life’s greatest need

When we “lock up our hearts” and fail to heed

The outstretched hand reaching to find

A kindred spirit whose heart and mind
Are lonely and longing to somehow share

Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware
 
That life’s completeness and richness depends

On the things we share with our loved ones and friends.
 
 — Helen Steiner Rice

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Any Little Word
If any little word of ours,
Can make one life the brighter;
If any little song of ours
Can make one heart the lighter;
God help us speak that little word,
And take our bit of singing,
And drop it in some lonely vale
To set the echoes ringing
— Unknown