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The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.