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[skydragon]

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Dr. Seuss

 

[Debra_oh]

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

 

[DocTonyNYC]

A drawing from the Mayan Madrid Codex shows gods piercing their ears and sprinkling their blood over the cacao harvest, indicating a strong association between blood and cacao in Meso-American tradition.

In the ancient Mayan civilization, humans were often sacrificed to guarantee a good cacao harvest. First, the prisoner was forced to drink a cup of chocolate, which sometimes was spiked with blood because the Maya believed it would convert the victim’s heart into a cacao pod.

 

[seethru_peril]

"Just do it."

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[Debra_oh]

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

 

[Lynzy]

“What's meant to be will always find a way”~~~Trisha Yearwood

 

[spartanstew]

“If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time,” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.”
― Daniel Willey

 

[seethru_peril]

If you love something let it go...if it returns, it was meant to be.

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[Lynzy]

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”~~~Thomas Jefferson

 

[Debra_oh]

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius,

 

[Lynzy]

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.~~~Vincent van Gogh

 

[Lynzy]

“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky.”~~~Hafiz

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Belgium produces 172,000 tons of chocolate per year. Over 2,000 chocolate shops are found throughout the country, many located in Brussels where Godiva chocolate originated.

 

[Debra_oh]

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Owing to the nature of cacao butter, chocolate is the only edible substance that melts at around 93° F, just below body temperature. This means that after placing a piece of chocolate on your tongue, it will begin to melt.

Commercial chocolate usually contains such low amounts of cacao solids that it is more likely the sugar that chocolate lovers are addicted to.

 

[Lynzy]

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”~~~Jack London

 

[Debra_oh]

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams

 

[DocTonyNYC]

olumbus’s son Ferdinand recorded that when the Mayans dropped some cacao beans, “they all stopped to pick it up, as though an eye had fallen.” Columbus, who was searching for a route to India, did not see the potential of the cacao market and mistook them for shriveled almonds.

In Mayan civilization, cacao beans were the currency, and counterfeiting cacao beans out of painted clay had become a thriving industry. Goods could be priced in units of cacao: a slave cost 100 beans, the services of a prostitute cost 10 beans, and a turkey cost 20 beans. While the Spanish conquistadors horded gold, the Mesoamericans horded cacao beans. In some parts of Latin America, the beans were used as a currency as late as the 19th century.

 

[spartanstew]

“One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself.”
― Robert Zeidan

 

[Lynzy]

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”~~~Lou Holtz