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Simple Sunday- Friendship

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“We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.”
― Kamila Shamsie

“I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn’t be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn’t get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It’s good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
― Sydney Smith

“But aren’t small things exactly what friendships are made up of? Frayed string bracelets and late-night texts and compilations of your favorite songs? When you take those things away, what do you have left?”
― Ann Liang, This Time It’s Real

“With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don’t see much else that can nurture human life.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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Simple Sunday- Dream

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“All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” — Viola Davis

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”-Terry Pratchett

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”-Carl Jung

“People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about – making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.”-Mary McAleese

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”-Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Simple Sunday- Healing

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“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. it’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo

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Simple Sunday- Humor Me

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“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”― Albert Einstein

“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father’s shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.” “How sweet,” Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. “Every woman dreams of being told that she’s preferable to a dead cow.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”-Isaac Asimov

 “Well, you know what they say: If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me.”
—Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias

“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”-Terry Pratchett

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Simple Sunday- Snarky Musicians

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“Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.”-Howard Dietz

“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”― Duke Ellington

“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.”-Dolly Parton

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”― Igor Stravinsky

“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”― Douglas Adams

“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”— Ella Fitzgerald

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Simple Sunday- Theater

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“People don’t understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you’ve got to come locked and loaded, that you’re a part of the experience, too. You can’t come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.”-Viola Davis

“All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.”-Stephen Sondheim

“In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.”-Juliet Stevenson

“Youth theatre isn’t just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It’s for everyone; it’s about a community, it’s about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills – not just acting but all the other sides – working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.”-Sam Heughan

“I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that’s what I want to do.”-David Tennant

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Simple Sunday- Grief

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“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass

“She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’
‘I’m sorry,’ she replied. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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Simple Sunday- Rainy days

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“You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.”-Denzel Washington

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”-Dave Barry

“Nothing’s more comforting than the sound of rain when you’re not in it.”
― Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

“…I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms…”― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”-Amelia Barr

“All morning it has been raining.
In the language of the garden, this is happiness.”― Mary Oliver

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Simple Sunday- Stories

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“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”
― Tamora Pierce

“I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.” Emilia Fox

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.’-Eudora Welty

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Simple Sunday- Empathy

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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”-Benjamin Disraeli

‘Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”-Neil Gaiman

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”-Malorie Blackman

“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.”-Barbara Kingsolver