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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” Ernest Hemingway

“A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.”

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.” Viktor Frankl

 “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”  (Louisa May Alcott) 
Hot chocolate by the fireplace, a homemade apple pie, a nice flower decoration on the table, an advent wreath as the center piece…it’s the simple things that go a long way in a family’s happy hearth!