Friendships are born on the field of athletic strife and the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

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"Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing it."

- Jesse Owens

Awareness

"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it."

- Jesse Owens

Awareness

"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close."

- Jesse Owens

Integrity

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."

- Jesse Owens

Personal Growth

"One chance is all you need."

- Jesse Owens

Motivation

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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

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