--There are many areas in which we are lacking, many because of technology. It's easier to send an email, than to write a letter, buy a card, buy postage, then knowing what to say, or sometimes 'what not to say'.

--COMMUNICATION / RELATIONSHIPS / COMPASSION

'The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said,'

--Peter Drucker
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'He who can no longer listen to his brother will soon no longer be listening to God, either.'

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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'The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer. It's the feeling of being uncared for, unwanted--of being deserted.'

--Mother Teresa
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-'Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.'

--George Eliot roseinbloom
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'We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.'

--Walker Percy
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]