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Simple Sunday- Happy Birthday To Me!

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“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”- Ausonius

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”-Oprah Winfrey

“Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.”- Buddy Valastro

“It takes a long time to become young.”-Pablo Picasso

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”-Lewis Carroll

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

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Simple Sunday- Brave

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“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”-Bob Dylan

“The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.”-Chadwick Boseman

“Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.”-Kerry Greenwood, Dead Man’s Chest

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Bravery hides in amazing places.”― Kiera Cass, The One

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Simple Sunday- Learning

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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”-Zora Neale Hurston

“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”-Natalie Portman

“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”-Walt Whitman

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”-Abigail Adams

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”-B. B. King

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Simple Sunday- Gardening

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“I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.”-Monty Don

“The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.”-Charlotte Smith

“Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.”-Jane Hawking

“When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It’s uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It’s trial and error, really. If something doesn’t work, it comes out, and you start all over again.”-Emilia Fox

“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”-Andrew Weil

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Simple Sunday- Stillness

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

“The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.”-Chris Evans

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”-Sylvia Plath

“Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.”-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”-D. H. Lawrence

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Simple Sunday- Happy Pi Day!

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“It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is inherently a surprise by virtue of its crust.”
― Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
― David Mamet, Boston Marriage

“The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its back or five its high. Don’t fuss with refrigerators every step oft he way. Keep the water and butter cold, and remember what a wise baker once said: The goal is pie.”
― Kate Lebo, A Commonplace Book of Pie

“What a sad and cynical world this has become when one is forced to be suspicious of pie.”
― Sandra Peterson Ramirez, The Infinite Loop: a novella of spaceships, time warps and free pie

“Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished.
-May 3, 1902 article in New York Times”
― Dinah Fried, Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals

“The diameter divides into the circumference, you know. It ought to be three times. You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But does it? No. Three point one four one and lots of other figures. There’s no end to the buggers. Do you know how pissed off that makes me?”
“I expect it makes you extremely pissed off,” said Teppic politely.
“Right. It tells me that the Creator used the wrong kind of circles. It’s not even a proper number! I mean, three point five, you could respect. Or three point three. That’d look *right*.” He stared morosely at the pie.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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Simple Sunday- Reading

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“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.”– Anna Quindlen

“A book is a dream you hold in your hands.” – Neil Gaiman

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”– Toni Morrison

“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” – Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without A Country

“Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness?” – Sarah MacLean in The Rogue Not Taken

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Simple Sunday- Mental Health

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“Silence is so freaking loud.” ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it,” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” — Fred Rogers

“Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” — Kristen Bell

“Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.”- Kate Middleton

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Simple Sunday- Stars

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“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.-“Ransom Riggs

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

“I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend…”-Neil Gaiman

“Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.”-Haruki Murakami

“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”-Nikita Gill

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.”-Beth Revis, Across the Universe