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

“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” 
― E.B. White


“When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one’s ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.” 
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows


“Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort – these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.” – Joyce Carol Oates

A Playful Simple Sunday
Simple Sundays

A Playful Simple Sunday

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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” – Carl Jung

“When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.” – Fred Rogers

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”- Henri Matisse

“Play is hard to maintain as you get older. You get less playful. You shouldn’t, of course.” – Richard Feynman

“As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.” – Gretchen Owocki

Simple Sunday- Dog Edition
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Simple Sunday- Dog Edition

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“My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.” – Elayne Boosler

“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 well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?” ― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs


“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” – Samuel Butler


“Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool.” 
― Ann Beattie

Sewing · Simple Sundays

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“A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.” – Betsey Johnson

“People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven’t read them! I’ve always known that my books are about quilters – in other words, people – rather than quilts or quilting.” – Jennifer Chiaverini

“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“All creative people want to do the unexpected.” – Hedy Lamarr

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“If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone else’s story.” – Terry Pratchett

“Creativity is an act of defiance.” ― Twyla Tharp

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou

“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts…”
― Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

 

Simple Sundays

A Sharky Simple Sunday

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“Look, Chief, you can’t go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn’t evil. It’s not a murderer. It’s just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws

“Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.”
Brian Skerry

“Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.” – Kurt Weill

“Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.” – Douglas Adams

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“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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“It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.”
― Jane Austen

“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Who wouldn’t want to get married in a room full of love stories?”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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Gardening · Simple Sundays

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“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes.”                – Unknown

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” -Sigmund Freud

“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” – Helen Mirren

 

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“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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

“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods