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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday

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“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”- Henry David Thoreau

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”- H. G. Wells

“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”- Florence Nightingale

“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”- Louisa May Alcott

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

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”- Tom Hiddleston

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Simple Sunday- Books!

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The book sales we normally go to in April were postponed, but I had posts planned already. So you get book quotes! Hopefully they’ll inspire you to get into a good book.

“There was also something about the smell of bookshops that was strangely comforting to her. She wondered if it was the scent of ink and paper, or the perfume of binding, string, and glue. Maybe it was the scent of knowledge. Information. Thoughts and ideas. Poetry and love. All of it bound into one perfect, calm place.”- Alyson Richman, The Garden of Letters

“The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.”- Mackenzi Lee, The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home–they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”- Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.” –Confucius

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Simple Sunday- Experience

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“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”-Emily Dickinson

“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”- Sally Ride

“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”-Carl Jung

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”- Douglas Adams

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”- Samuel Butler

“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”- Twyla Tharp

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Simple Sunday

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“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”- Rosa Parks

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”- H. P. Lovecraft

“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”- Clara Barton

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”- Marie Curie

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Simple Sunday- Friendship

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“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –Anais Nin

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”- Charlotte Bronte

“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”- Vincent van Gogh

“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Comfort

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“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” ― James Herriot, James Herriot’s Cat Stories

“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” – Thomas De Quincey

“Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.” – Terry Pratchett

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”- Jane Austen

“Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.”- Joyce Meyer

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Simple Sunday

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”- Barack Obama

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” Mother Teresa

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”- Lemony Snicket

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brene Brown

“You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” – Neil Gaiman

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”- Stephen King

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Motivation Monday

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“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”- Stephen Hawking

“It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”- Betty White

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.” – Elie Wiesel

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Simple Sunday

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“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” – Brene Brown

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”- Marcus Aurelius

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin

“We all get where we’re going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.” – Carol Burnett

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- New Beginnings

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ― T.S. Eliot

“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.”

― Anthony Liccione

“It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.”

― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart