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Joanne Harris - Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed
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  to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm our host Andrew McGivern for December 16th, today's National
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  Chocolate Covered Anything Day, a deliciously absurd celebration
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  that encourages you to dip literally anything in chocolate.
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  The origins of this holiday remain delightfully mysterious,
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  but the concept is simple. If it exists, you can cover it
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  in chocolate. Strawberries, classic pretzels,
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  delicious bacon, surprisingly good Pickles.
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  Don't knock it till you've tried it.
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  This day celebrates chocolate's remarkable ability to improve
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  nearly everything it touches. It's not about sophistication or
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  culinary rules. It's about playful
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  experimentation and the universal truth.
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  A chocolate makes things better. National Chocolate Covered
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  Anything day is permission to be creative, indulgent, and maybe
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  even a little ridiculous with your food choices.
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  And that brings us to today's quote from author Joanne Harris,
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  who wrote the novel Chocolate and captured the essence of
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  chocolate when she said happiness.
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  Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart.
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  Bitter, sweet, alive. Harris understands that
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  chocolate mirrors life itself. Complex, contradictory, and
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  completely worth savoring, Chocolate is both simple and
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  complicated. On one level, it's just
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  happiness in edible form. Pure pleasure, straightforward
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  joy. But look closer and you'll find
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  layers. Bitter notes balancing sweet
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  ones, smooth textures giving way to rough, dark complexity hiding
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  beneath milk chocolate. Simplicity.
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  That's what makes National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
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  so perfect. You take something ordinary, a
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  banana, a potato chip, a marshmallow, and cover it in
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  chocolate. Suddenly something simple
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  becomes more interesting. The chocolate adds depth,
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  contrast and complexity. Life works the same way.
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  Our experiences layer on top of each other.
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  The bitter moments make the sweet 1 sweeter.
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  The difficult times add depth to the easy ones.
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  Like chocolate, life is richer because it contains both bitter
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  and sweet, simple and tortuous, all alive.
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  Paris knew that chocolate isn't just food.
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  It's a metaphor. It's comfort.
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  It's everything we feel wrapped up in something we can taste.
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  So today, cover something in chocolate.
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  Find something unexpected. Bacon, strawberries, Graham
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  crackers, popcorn, whatever calls you.
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  Melt some chocolate and experiment.
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  But also think about Harris's wisdom.
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  Life, like chocolate, contains both bitter and sweet.
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  The complexity is what makes it alive.
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  The contrast is what makes it worth experiencing.
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  To embrace both. Savor the sweetness when it
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  comes. Appreciate how the bitter
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  moments add depth. Let the layers build into
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  something richer than simplicity ever could be.
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  Because National Chocolate covered Anything Day reminds us
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  sometimes the best things happen when we layer experiences on top
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  of each other, letting them combine into something
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  unexpected and wonderful. That's going to do it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.