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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Love

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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”― C.S. Lewis

“It’s okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Before this week, I never realized that real-life romance isn’t like the movies. Things don’t have to be so serious and intense all the time. You can have intensely serious feelings for someone and be silly with them. You can go from making out to laughing, and back to making out, and that’s okay.”
― Dallas Woodburn, The Best Week that Never Happened

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Simple Sunday- Summer

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“Summer was a lady who didn’t give up her spotlight easily.”― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun – my children are horrified!”-Danielle Steel

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”-C. Day Lewis

“Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o’clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their stems, full-blown, fulfilled; the water in the pool was warm; the leaves on the trees quiet, too, and green. The cat lay with his belly to the sun, steeped in heat.”― Elizabeth Enright, Doublefields: Memories and Stories

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”-Regina Brett

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Simple Sunday- Fairies

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“People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.”-Laura Amy Schlitz

“I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you’ve got magic, you’ve got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I’m pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I’m pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.”-Seanan McGuire

“Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.”-Joseph Jacobs

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?”― Neil Gaiman, Fables & Reflections

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Simple Sunday- Positivity

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“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”- Maurice Chevalier

“Let’s end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.” -Amy Poehler

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”- Katherine Dunham

“When positivity is the key. You’ll find peace in a cup of tea.” -Munia Khan, Fireclay

“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”-Maya Angelou

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Simple Sunday- Independence

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“Independence is happiness.”- Susan B. Anthony

“Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.”-Michelle Obama

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”-Charlotte Bronte

“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”-Maya Angelou

“Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.”-Kirsten Gillibrand

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Simple Sunday- Dogs Are Love

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“Dogs are actually very smart, it’s just that they’re rather clumsy, but it’s this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.”― Hiromu Arakawa

“Scratching Yogi’s ears Michelle says ‘That’s just part of his job, the comforting. That’s what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he’s more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being.” This is a trait that more “people” should encompass.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction

“You can’t replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t get more dogs and people in your life.”― Polly Horvath, One Year in Coal Harbor

“Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move…the combination “lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance.” In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.”― David Rosenfelt, Leader of the Pack

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”― Robyn Davidson, Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

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Simple Sunday- Exploration

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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”-T. S. Eliot

“Exploring is an innate part of being human. We’re all explorers when we’re born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it’s there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that’s experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.”-Edith Widder

“That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”-Leonard Nimoy

“Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s what scientists do every day.”-Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Simple Sunday- Nature

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“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”- Hans Christian Andersen

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”- Helen Keller

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.”-Bill Watterson

“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.”-Emily Carr

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”- Robert Louis Stevenson

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”-Alice Walker

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Simple Sunday- Mental Health

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“There is no excuse for using someone’s mental health as a stick with which to beat them.”- Luciana Berger

“I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.” ― Vincent van Gogh

“It’s like any other part of your body – your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.”- Olly Alexander

“Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.”-Kate Middleton

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” — Fred Rogers

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Simple Sunday- Art

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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.”- Gwendolyn Brooks

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”-Claude Debussy

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”-Edgar Degas

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way– things I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe