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Simple Sunday- Outer Space

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“I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.”-Leroy Chiao

“The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.”-Anne McClain

“Now, space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, the smell of space when you open up the hatch is very distinct. It’s kind of like a burning-metal smell, if you can imagine what that would smell like.”-Scott Kelly

“The biggest honor is to be an astronaut. It’s such a tremendous privilege to be able to represent humankind in our quest to explore space.”- John M. Grunsfeld

“The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.”- Kalpana Chawla

“I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn’t give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.”-David Weber

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Simple Sunday- Tea Quotes

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“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother’s pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said ‘in case of Armageddon, step 3 to 5 minutes.’“ -Aprilynne Pike, Illusions

“One sip of this will be the dripping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”- John Milton, Comus

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. ‘Is there any tea on the spaceship?’ He asked.”- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide

“ Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say “What kind of tea?’”- Neil Gaiman

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Simple Sunday- Strength

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“I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.”-Viola Davis

‘Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”-Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you’re weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.”-Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

“Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.”-Dag Hammarskjold

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”-Ernest Shackleton

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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

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Simple Sunday- Snarky/Funny Quotes

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These are from a book called “The Book of Poisonous Quotes.” I found it at a book sale pre-Covid. These are from the Film section of the book.

“Movies are just another form of merchandising- we have our factory which is called the stage; we make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.” -Cary Grant

“The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” – Alfred Hitchcock

“You can’t find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.”- Carrie Fisher

“Hollywood is where they write the alibis before they write the story.”- Carole Lombard

“It seems the moment anyone gets a hold of an exclamation mark these days, he sits down and writes a musical show around it.” – George Jean Nathan

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Simple Sunday- War and Peace

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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” Ernest Hemingway

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” –Bertrand Russell

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”- Maya Lin

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”-Douglas MacArthur

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Simple Sunday- Favorite Author Quotes Pt 2

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“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“It’s easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.”― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

“And weren’t, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren’t. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.” – Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn’t broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn’t change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.” ― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

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Simple Sunday- Favorite Author Quotes

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“The thing about mental health was, you couldn’t take a course of antibiotics and be magically healed. Some people’s brains just thought too much or felt too much or hurt too much, and you had to stay on top of that.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark.” ― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“I’m not a monster because I live in a world that gives me impossible choices.”― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water

“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel’s Kiss

“The family you create is sometimes just as important as the one you’re born into.”
― Rebekah Weatherspoon, Xeni

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Simple Sunday- History

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“Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.” –B. B. King

“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”- Aretha Franklin

“Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.”- Octavia E. Butler

“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.”-Shirley Chisholm

“We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.”-Stacey Abrams

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”- James Baldwin