The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

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"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"

- Charles Dickens

Joy

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

Belief

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

- Charles Dickens

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"God bless us, every one!"

- Charles Dickens

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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

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"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

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"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

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"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

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"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

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