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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Broken

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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”-Ernest Hemingway

“Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.”-Christine Tsai

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”-Frederick Douglas

“There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.”-Queen Latifah

“We’ve all fallen, but at the same time we’re not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”-Amy Lee

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Simple Sunday

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‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”-Alice Walker

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“She had gradually discovered that the best response to glorious, unexpected happiness was not to seek explanation for its appearance but simply to embrace it and be glad.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”- Carl Jung

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”-Elie Wiesel

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Simple Sunday- Writing

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“I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know.”- Carrie Fisher

“I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.” – George Orwell

“I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.”- Carol Emshwiller, Report to the Men’s Club and Other Stories

“Silence is a cage. These words are my wings.” -Jenim Dibie

“The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page, a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically emphatic sentence, falling in love could be achieved in a single word – a glance. The pages of a recently finished story seemed to vibrate in her hand with all the life they contained.”- Ian McEwan, Atonement

“So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”-Isaac Asimov

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Happy Birthday, Mom!

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“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb

“I decided if you’re lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.”-Mary Steenburgen

“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.”-William Barclay

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”-Mark Twain

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Simple Sunday- Dragons

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“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”- R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

“You haven’t been bit till a dragon does it.”-Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

“But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.”-Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“If you behave like a beastly dragon, do not be surprised when wary folks point swords at you.”- Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.”- George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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Simple Sunday- Vote!

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I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but go vote on Tuesday! Or before with an absentee ballot! I’ll even send you a virtual hug!

“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.”-John Lewis

“Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can ‘the consent of the governed’ be given if the right to vote be denied?”-Susan B. Anthony

“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.”-Alice Cooper

“If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.”-Dolores Huerta

“People who don’t vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.”-Marian Wright Edelman

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Simple Sunday- “Patriotism”

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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”― Mark Twain

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”― Samuel Adams

“Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.”― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“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

“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.”-Anne-Marie Slaughter

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- The Hobbit

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“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”-J. R. R. Tolkien

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”-J. R. R. Tolkien

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Simple Sunday- Books

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“Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.”- Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

“Books are the only things worth stealing.”-Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard’s Wager

“You know you’ve written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it’s entertaining.”- Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard’s Wager

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” – Henry Ward Beecher

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Simple Sunday- Fall

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“Maybe late afternoon is autumn; summer’s retreat
not being archived, but suspended, as the feathered
vane of a bird wings its way across the avenue.”
― Michelle Cahill, The Accidental Cage

“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon – autumn’s breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Autumn is a fleeting season, melancholy by nature. Its ghostly beauty cultivates a fertile atmosphere for memories that wrote their history on a tablet of fallen leaves – I recall them with the greatest clarity… Whatever else autumn may be, it is the prophet of winter. Winter lasts forever.”
― Brian P. Easton, Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.” — Ernest Hemingway

“A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves might be falling, but the space was still redolent with the odors of life. It contained a thousand reassurances that no matter what one person’s strife, the seasons continued their cycle.”
― Madeline Hunter, Stealing Heaven