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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Freedom

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”― Søren Kierkegaard

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”-Marian Wright Edelman

“America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.”-Alice Walker

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works – Volume XII

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”-Rosa Parks

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Simple Sunday- Changes

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“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”- Jimi Hendrix

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”-Maya Angelou

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”- Viktor E. Frankl

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”- Toni Morrison

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

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”-Terry Pratchett

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Simple Sunday- Father’s Day

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“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.” – John Gregory Brown

“My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.” – Bindi Irwin

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – Harry S. Truman

“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”- Ralph Fiennes

“I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.”-Bil Keane

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Simple Sunday- Friendship

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“As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.”- Susan Glaspell

“Any friendship or relationship is about a language.”-Gina Bellman

“There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.”- Rachel Simmons

“You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.”- Viggo Mortensen

“I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can’t live without each other.”- Martin Freeman

“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”- Charles de Lint

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Dogs

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“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” – Charles de Gaulle

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.” – Christopher Morley

“You don’t realize how much a dog’s presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.”-Meghan Daum

“A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well – almost.” – Charlotte Gray

“A well trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.”  – Helen Thomson

“Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.”-Mary Oliver

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Simple Sunday- Justice

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“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”- Frederick Douglass

“We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.”- Alice Walker

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”-Albert Einstein

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”-Helen Keller

“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.”-Coretta Scott King

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Simple Sunday

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“Your body hears everything your mind says.”- Naomi Judd

“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”- Fred Rogers

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”- Viktor E. Frankl

“There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.” – Billie Eilish

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”- Alfred Adler

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Simple Sunday- Mother’s Day

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“But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.”

― Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”

― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

“. . . I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter friend. I do love you, dear Mama.”

― Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love

“My mother, she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” – Jodi Picoult

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” Rudyard Kipling

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Simple Sunday- Fantasy

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“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”- Dr. Seuss

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”- Carl Jung

“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you’ll let me be in your story.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”-Terry Pratchett

“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what’s impossible? What’s a fantasy?”- Alan Rickman

“I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children’s stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, ‘Can’t you write anything normal?’”- Octavia E. Butler

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Simple Sunday- Book quotes

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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.-“ John Locke

“Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.”- Maria Montessori

“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn’t even know existed.”- Mark Haddon

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”- Arthur Schopenhauer

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”- Confucius

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.”-Elie Wiesel

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson