Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an intelligent person in this world." ―Swami Vivekananda

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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. ― Frederick Buechner

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Go where your best prayers take you. ― Frederick Buechner

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You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. ―C. JoyBell C

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. ― Frederick Buechner

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.” —Vin Diesel

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1. As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories! —Zoe McLellan

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