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“During this new year I resolve to begin a new life. I do not know what will happen to me during this year, but I abandon myself entirely to you, my God.”
- St. Gemma Galgani

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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”
- Jan Richardson

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"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

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“We have to remember that work is not prayer. It is at best an extension of prayer. We fool ourselves if we argue that we don’t have to pray because we work so hard or our work is so good. Those who work without prayer -- no matter how good the work, no matter how sincere the minister -- soon dry up inside. They have nothing left to give. Or, the work fails and they have no faith to sustain them, no perspective to encourage them. More important, real prayer makes us more effective people because real prayer changes us. Prayer delivers us from our own internal oppressions, the burdens we put on ourselves, the bitterness we carry, because it enables the inbreaking of God in our lives.”
- Joan Chittister, OSB

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“I learned that life in the immediate aftermath of a loss feels perverse. You understand that control is an illusion and that the illusion is gone forever. Terror takes over. If this can happen, anything can, and if this did, anything will.”
- Helen Chernikoff, Modern Loss

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"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
- Rachel Carson

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"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth