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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Extraordinary

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“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”-Uta Hagen

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

“When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.”-Kristin Armstrong

“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”-Orison Swett Marden

“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”- Brene Brown

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Simple Sunday- Spring

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“The sun was warm, but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. when the sun is out and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.”- Robert Frost

“Dead my old fine hopes and dry my dreaming, but still Iris, blue each spring.”- Shushiki

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir

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Simple Sunday- Books

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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”― Mark Twain

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”- Henry Ward Beecher

“But the man in the robe is talking. His voice is like the rustling of old parchments in a library, late at night, when the people have gone home and the books begin to read themselves.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2

“There were books on all sorts of topics, from exciting things of vital importance to things that nobody had a reason to care about, but in a library the topics keep taking turns being important or interesting. Each patron in a library is looking for something different, and so the book you hardly notice is the book someone else is breathless to find, and the book that always makes you smile is busy making someone else sick.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

“A good book is like a guest. They stay with you for a while, and when they leave, you are still smiling, and thinking they left a little too soon. You will always remember their pleasant company; things they said that moved you and maybe changed your perspective You plan to invite them again so you can spend quality time together and when you invite them in, you are full of anticipation about the new discoveries you will make when you are together.”
― Suzy Davies

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Simple Sunday- Wisdom

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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”-Confucius

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”-Calvin Coolidge

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”-Henry Ward Beecher

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”-Benjamin Franklin

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”- Leonard Nimoy

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Simple Sunday- Characters

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“Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.”-Alexandra Adornetto

“I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.”-Alan Moore

“One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.”-Joanne Harris

“It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.”-Erin Morgenstern

“I’m always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they’re gone, and we’ll never be together like that again.”-Seanan McGuire

“It’s easy to feel like you don’t have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen – everything is changing so fast, and a lot of it feels so outside of your power. I think that’s why a lot of teens form really strong attachments to fictional characters or celebrities, draw their own characters or write themselves into fan fiction.”-Noelle Stevenson


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Simple Sunday- Games

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“Gamers even develop some unusual emotional “superpowers.” Perhaps the most surprising power has to do with dreaming. People who frequently play first-person games (which graphically show you the game world from the point of view of the hero, like Minecraft, Halo, and Portal) develop two rather amazing skills: They can halt nightmares in their tracks, controlling themselves in their dreams the way they control a character in a video game.”― Jane McGonigal, SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games

“Sam felt a peacefulness come over him when he was playing Donkey Kong in his grandparents’ pizza parlor. When he could time the little Japanese Italian plumber’s jumps and ascend the staircases at the right pace, it felt as if the universe was capable of being ordered. It felt as if it were possible to achieve a perfect timing. It felt like synchronicity.”― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Games were not just a diversion, I realized. Games could make you feel. If great literature could would its power through nothing but black squiggles on a page, how much more could be done with movement, sound, and color?”― Sid Meier, Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games

“The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.”-Mark Rober

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Simple Sunday- Flowers

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“I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,’ said Priscilla.
‘Then your soul is a golden narcissus,’ said Anne, ‘and Diana’s is like a red, red rose. Jane’s is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.’
‘And your own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,’ finished Priscilla.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“I’m talking about the language of flowers. It’s from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
― Alexander Den Heijer

“To be a Flower, is profound
Responsibility”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I have lost my smile,
but don’t worry.
The dandelion has it.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Who’s to say which is stronger? Flowers break concrete just like hammers do.”
― Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

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Simple Sunday- Humor

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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” —Jane Austen

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.”- H. G. Wells

“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”-Terry Pratchett

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”― Lemony Snicket

“Every now and then I like to do as I’m told, just to confuse people.”― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

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Simple Sunday- Imagination

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“I believe that imagination inspires nations. It’s something that I live by.”-Janelle Monae

“Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.”-Julianna Baggott

“Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.”-Kate Atkinson

“I believe in the power of imagination. I believe in the unexplained possibilities of the spirit. And I believe that the heart, like any other muscle, grows stiff if it is not exercised regularly. I believe.”
― Eve Zibart, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World for Grown-Ups

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Simple Sunday- Science!

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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”-Jules Verne

“This job is a great scientific adventure. But it’s also a great human adventure. Mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.” — Higgs Boson physicist Fabiola Gianotti

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…”― Isaac Asimov

“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.” –Lise Meitner