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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Independence

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“If people are making fun of you then you’re probably doing something right.”-Amy Lee

“It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing.”-Terry Pratchett

“When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”-Carl Rogers

“I firmly believe in standing by what you are. I was never taught to dim my light to pacify other people.”- Iliza Shlesinger

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”-Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Finch Quotes

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I downloaded Finch a while ago to see if it would help my motivation levels go up and it’s actually been really nice! Here are some of the quotes I’ve saved from the app to help motivate or inspire myself. I hope they can do the same for you!

This last one hit me hard in the gut. I’m still processing it as we speak, but finding this quote definitely helped me through some of the bad stuff that’s happened in the past year or so.

Simple Sundays

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

Simple Sundays

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

Simple Sundays

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- 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

Adventures · Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Happy New Year!

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“The beginning is always today.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
— Chinese proverb

“Darkness must pass
A new day will come
And when the sun shines
It will shine out the clearer.”
— JRR Tolkien

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.” (Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
― Shannon L. Alder

Life Posts · Wordless Wednesdays

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday- Latest Kate Edition

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These cards are all from a deck of artist inspiration cards I keep in my office for people to choose the ones that speak to them. The artist is Kate Allen, who is a mental health author and illustrator. This set of cards is all work appropriate, but if you are looking at more on her website, they are not always work language. I really like them because they are so soothing and also very realistic and normalize mental health concerns. I hope they inspire you today! Here’s her website if you want to see more. https://www.thelatestkate.art/

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Inspiration

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“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

 “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”—Swedish proverb

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”—Jodi Picoult

“Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”—Fred Rogers