Simple Sunday- Happy Lunar New Year
Tag: Quotes
Simple Sunday- Dance Edition
“A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody’s a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.” – Alyssa Edwards
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” – Mata Hari
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“You don’t enter a dance studio and say “I can’t do that.” If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?” ― Judith Jamison, Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography
Simple Sunday
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.”
― Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” – George R.R. Martin
“It was the kind of snow that didn’t amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The technical term for that level, he decided, was an “annoyance” of snow.”
― Cassandra Clare, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.”
― Carla Reighard, Elle’s Magical Shoes
Simple Sunday
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs
“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.” -Sarah MacLean
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.” – Ernest Shackleton
Simple Sunday
“Entertaining shouldn’t be about showing off. It’s all about making people feel comfortable and setting a stage for everyone to have a good time, make new friends, and have stimulating conversations. You want to leave a party thinking: If I hadn’t gone to that, I never would have met this wonderful person, or had that delicious meal, or felt that sense of camaraderie with the people I met at the dessert table. You don’t want anyone looking at the clock, thinking, When can I leave?” ― Tim Gunn, Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’” -Anthony Bourdain
“Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it’s healthy.” – Marcus Samuelsson
“Usually, one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. “- Julia Child
Simple Sunday- A New Year!
“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” – Norman Rockwell― Norman Rockwell
“Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“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
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Simple Sunday- Merry Christmas!
“For it is in giving that we receive.”-Francis of Assisi
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”- Calvin Coolidge
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”- Charles Schultz
“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.” – Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
Simple Sunday
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” ―Laura Ingalls Wilder
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” ―Marjorie Holmes
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr. Suess
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” – Shirley Temple
Simple Sunday
“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.” – Fred Rogers
“Books don’t only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.” – Michael Dirda
“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“If it’s not messy and it doesn’t drip over the sides, it’s not a holiday hot chocolate -it’s just an average hot chocolate.” – Alex Guarnaschelli
Simple Sunday
“As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”
― Akiroq Brost
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
― Chinese Proverb
“To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
“When Geoffrey’s not anxious, he radiates calmness, which probably means he sees more things and finds more things than other people do. It makes him open to new things too.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown