Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Inspiration

“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

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Snarky/Funny Quotes

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

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- War and Peace

“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

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Favorite Author Quotes Pt 2

“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

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Favorite Author Quotes

“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

“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

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Simple Sunday- Romance

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Love is a luxury.”
“No. Love is an element.”
An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
― Janet Evanovich

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live – if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Play

“Playing a game together actually builds up bonds and trust and cooperation. We actually build stronger social relationships as a result.”- Jane McGonigal, Game designer

“We shouldn’t stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination. Those things can help us in life.”-Hayao Miyazaki

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”-Henri Matisse

“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”-Erik H. Erikson

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
― Louisa May AlcottLittle Women

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Morning

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” –Ursula K. Le Guin

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”- E. B. White

“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’- Anna Quindlen

“My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.”-George Takei

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”-Ogden Nash

“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.”-Catherynne M. Valente