If you would be loved, love and be lovable

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." Benjamin Franklin
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." Thomas Wolfe
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better." George Santayana
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." Irish Proverb