To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

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"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love

"Absence destroys small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires."

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Love

"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Awareness

"We never listen when we are eager to speak"

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Leadership

"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-confidence

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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."

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"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

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"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

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

- Otonashi Yuzuru

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"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