We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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"I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least."

- Dorothy Day

Love

"What we would like to do is change the world — make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do."

- Dorothy Day

Compassion

"People say, 'What is the sense of our small effort?' They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do."

- Dorothy Day

Motivation

""The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.""

- Dorothy Day

Generosity

"The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away."

- Dorothy Day

Generosity

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"As we discover God, sometimes unexpected answers to prayers take us from the street, bring us to community, chase darkness from our souls, and guide us to find spiritual refuge and belonging in the goodness of His covenants and abiding love."

Connection to Earth

"We are all like fireworks: we climb, we shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even when that time comes, let’s not disappear like a firework and continue to shine forever."

- Hitsugaya Toshiro

Connection to Earth

"Alone, you feel nothing but insecurity; that’s why we form guilds, that’s why we have friends. We walk together in order to live a strong life."

- Makarov Dreyar

Connection to Earth

"Even if we forget the faces of our friends, We will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls."

- Otonashi Yuzuru

Connection to Earth

"No single thing is perfect by itself. That’s why we’re born to attract other things to make up for what we lack. I think we start walking in the right direction only after we start getting our counterparts besides us."

- Itachi Uchiha

Connection to Earth