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"The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending."
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"When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate."
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"Research by the Income Center for Tradeshows found that people are twice as likely to remember you if you shake hands. According to the American Management Association, it takes only one-fortieth of a second to create a human bond. Whether you shake someone's hand, squeeze their arm, or touch their shoulder, make these moments count to be remembered favorably."
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Personal Development
"You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to."
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Personal Development
"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."
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Personal Development
"There are souls that can't encounter to each other."
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Personal Development
"Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings."
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Personal Development
"Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all."
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Personal Development
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
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Personal Development
"Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings."
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Personal Development
"There is no communication with God without communication with God's people."
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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
Strength
"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."
Authenticity
"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
Truth
"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
Honesty
"Family," she announced. "They're the people in your life you don't get to pick. The ones that are given to you,as opposed to those you get to choose.""You're bound to them by blood," she continued, her voice flat. "Which, you know, gives you that much more in common. Diseases, genetics, hair, and eye color. It's like they're part of your blueprint. If something's wrong with you, you can usually trace it back to them."I nodded and kept writing."But," she said, "even though you're stuck with them, at the same time, they're also stuck with you. So that's why they always get the front rows at christenings and funerals. Because they're the ones that are there, you know, from the beginning to the end. Like it or not."
Family
"As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real."
Psychology
"Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"
Empowerment
"I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back."
Decision
"The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending."
Connection
"I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break."
Childhood
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