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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Experience

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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”- Douglas Adams

“Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!”- Dita Von Teese

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”-Oscar Wilde

“Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.”-Linda Thompson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realize how important it is to use the time I have.”-Viggo Mortensen


Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Spring

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“I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.”Tara Westover

“In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.”-Said Nursi

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.”-David Hockney

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”-Mark Twain

“Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I’ve married someone from Vermont, so it’s an expression I kept hearing, and I’m like, ‘What is that? That’s just so beautiful.’ I like the idea it’s the very, very first murmurings of spring.”-Beth Orton

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- New Year

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“If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”-Robert Fulghum

“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”-C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”-Alfred Lord Tennyson

At Rainbow Cake, January’s special flavors would be dark chocolate and coffee, those pick-me-ups we all needed to start the day- or a new year. To me, their toasty-toasty flavors said that even if you only had a mere handful of beans and your life went up in flames, you could still create something wonderful. A little trial by fire could do you good. After all, if it worked so well with raw cacao and coffee beans, it could work for others, including me.”- Judith Fertig, The Cake Therapist

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”-Bill Gates

“The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.”-Enya

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- History

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“And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.”-George Takei

“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”-Corrie Ten Boom

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”-Elie Wiesel

“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”-Mark Twain

“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”-Anne Frank

“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”-C. S. Lewis

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Changes

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“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”- Jimi Hendrix

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”-Maya Angelou

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”- Viktor E. Frankl

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”- Toni Morrison

“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.”-Morgan Freeman

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”-Terry Pratchett

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”- Barack Obama

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” Mother Teresa

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”- Lemony Snicket

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brene Brown

“You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” – Neil Gaiman

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”- Stephen King

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Changes

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“And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.” – George Takei

“I had to find the courage to share not only myself but my art with the world. I faced fear, and I went for it. I wasn’t a failure, and I’m very proud of myself.” – Alyssa Edwards

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov