Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Affection works less like an ornament and more like light: nothing visibly happens when it is present, and everything slowly fails when it is gone. The image is not only about romance. It covers friendship, the people you check on, the work you care about, anything that keeps you turned outward. Left in the dark long enough, a person closes the way a garden closes.

If love feels thin at the moment, do not take that as a verdict on you. Warmth usually comes back in small, unglamorous ways: one message sent, one meal shared, one thing tended that cannot thank you. Start with whichever is nearest.