It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

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"Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star."

- Joni Mitchell

Awareness

"Sometimes the light can be so hard to find. At least the moon at the window, the thieves left that behind."

- Joni Mitchell

Awareness

"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

- Joni Mitchell

Awareness

"My parents told me I’d point to a bed of flowers and say ‘Pink. Pretty,’ before I knew any other words."

- Joni Mitchell

Inspiration

"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

- Joni Mitchell

Adversity

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"No one is beyond redemption."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Hope

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope