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"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
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"I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be."
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Personal Development

"You can only reach God through His creation."
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Personal Development

"The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast...The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God...Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."
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Personal Development

"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."
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Personal Development

"When we allow people to fellowship with us, God welcomes us into fellowshipping with Him."
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Personal Development

"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."
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Personal Development

"I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that."
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Personal Development

"Your first words will not only shape your first impression, they can create amazing connections, lead you to your dream job, or help you discover a new best friend-or accomplish exactly the opposite."
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Personal Development

"When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with God."
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Personal Development

"A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, encouraging, and brings joy into the world. It instantly tells others that you are glad to see them, that they are important and you are approachable."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
Memory

"Time flies with you."
Romance

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
Parenting

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
Family

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
Family

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
Relationship

"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."
Spiritual

"The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."
Aging

"This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
Story

"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
Story
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