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“Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.”

- Bono

In both the Eastern & Western traditions of Christianity, today marks the celebration of Easter.  For more information about this holiday, please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter

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“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”

- Elvis Presley

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“We cannot hold a torch to light another person’s path without brightening our own.”

- Ben Sweetland

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Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

- Rumi, “Mathnawi”

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“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”

- Jim Rohn

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“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.”

~Charles Reznikoff, "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

Yesterday evening at sundown began the Jewish festival of Chanukah.  For more information, please consider the following sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanukah

http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday7.htm

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If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

- Chinese Proverb

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“There are only two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

- Edith Wharton, American novelist (1862-1937)

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“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr