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Victor Hugo - Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Anna McGivern for December 21st.
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  Today is winter solstice, the longest night and shortest day
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  of the year in the northern hemisphere.
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  For thousands of years, humans have marked this astronomical
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  event. Ancient people spilled monuments
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  aligned to the solstice sun. Stonehenge, Newgrange, Machu
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  Picchu. They understood something
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  profound. Today marks a turning point.
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  After tonight, each day grows longer.
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  Light returns. Winter solstice reminds us that
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  darkness isn't permanent. It peaks, then recedes.
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  The sun reaches its lowest point in the sky, then begins its
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  climb back. So starting tomorrow, we gain
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  seconds, 10 minutes of daylight. Slowly but inevitably, light
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  winds. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from Victor Hugo, who captured the promise of the
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  solstice when he wrote Even the darkest night will end and the
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  sun will rise. Hugo's words aren't just poetic,
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  they're physical truth. No matter how dark it gets,
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  morning comes. The earth keeps spinning.
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  The sun keeps rising. This isn't hope or optimism.
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  It's astronomy. It's certainty.
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  The solstice teaches us this lesson in real time.
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  Tonight is literally the darkest night of the year.
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  Maximum darkness, peak, cold and shadow.
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  And yet embedded in this darkest moment is the sea of return.
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  Tomorrow late begins growing again.
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  That's the pattern in nature and in life.
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  The darkest moment often precedes the turn, when things
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  feel most hopeless. When winter feels endless,
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  that's often exactly when light begins its return.
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  Hugo understood that darkness is never the end of the story.
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  It's just a chapter. Night gives way to dawn.
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  Winter gives way to spring. The turn always comes.
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  So today, honor the turning. Notice that after tonight, days
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  grow longer. Light starts returning.
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  If you're in dark season, remember the solstice pattern.
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  Darkness peaks, then recedes. The turn is coming, even if you
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  can't see it yet. Tomorrow, watch the sunrise.
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  Know that you're witnessing the return of light, not just today,
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  but every day from now until summer.
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  Because Hugo was right. The darkest night will end.
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  The sun will rise. That's not hope, that's a
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  certainty. That's Solstice.
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  That's going to do it for today I'm.
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  Andrew Mcevurn signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.