When Lights Teach the Dark to Hope
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it
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A Child Counts the Stars
“I lifted my eyes to the sky and counted the stars, so I would
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The Weariness of Giving
I am tired of lighting fires to warm others, only to end up freezing myself…Of
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Running through the shadows
I am a traveller of the night and of the day. Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with
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Together on the Same Line
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller, “Optimism:
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Silent Devotion
The dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.Josh Billings
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Light Born of Darkness
In order for the light to shine so brightly,the darkness must be present. Francis Bacon, Essays,
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The Human Side of Christmas
“I will honour Christmas in my heart,and try to keep it all the year.” Charles
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No One Alone
No man is an island,entire of itself;every man is a piece of the continent,a part of
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At the Harbor of Waiting
“As one prepared long ago, as one courageous,bid her farewell, the Alexandria that is
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The Light That Restores Humanity
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the
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The Sweetness of Christmas
Christmas is like candy;
it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste,
like a
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Where Light Learns to Breathe
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Calaprice, Alice (ed.).
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Where the Century’s Memory Breathes
Nothing is ever lost;Whatever we have felt remains forever.
Manolis Anagnostakis, “I Speak,”
from the
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Where Freedom Begins
Whatever I love is born continuously. Whatever I love is always at its beginning.
Odysseas Elytis, Axion
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When Women Rise
There is no deeper root than a woman who has decided to stand tall.And there is
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Through Fire to Light
You must always pass through firebefore you reach the brightness.
Odysseas Elytis, Maria Nefeli (1978),
Section:
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At the Door of Wonder
For it is good to be children sometimes,and never better than at Christmas,when its
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Inside the Bubble of a Moment
My soap-bubble has burst,and I drift without magic.
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (1916)
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Where Memories Glow Again
Memories take a long time to fade,but it takes only the slightest thing for them
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Make your own way to the top
Climb, even if the ladder is broken.The height you reach will belong
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Every bench, many stories
We are all just stories,waiting for someone to sit beside usand listen.
Yannis Ritsos, Testimonies (Testimonies
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The Light That Never Wavers
“As the full moon shines in the night sky,so does wisdom illuminate the world.”
Dhammapada,
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Lights Made of Love
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles
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Where Christmas Lights Begin
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
Norman
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Love is like the wave
Love is like the waveit brings and takes away,sudden as lightning or slow in
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Freedom in Flight
You have opened your wings so widethat the wind can no longer lift you;it is you
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A long and tiring journey
“A long and tiring journey is destiny,but the worst of allis not knowingwhether you
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Autumn at the Window
Outside the windowthe old treesstand bare and silent.Yannis Ritsos — “Moonlight Sonata” (1956)Included in the
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Either No One, or Both Together “Either no one, or both together — do you hear me?”
Odysseas Elytis, Maria
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