What’s Important

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

― J.R.R. Tolkien

And This Comes as a Surprise to Whom??

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

Research tells us that fourteen ouit of any ten individuals like chocolate.

-Sandra Boynton

’Tis the Season…

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay Out of My Trash Cans!

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

— Hilda Lawrence

Truth Is, well… the Truth

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:




The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Challenge of Change

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:




When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves.

— Victor E. Frankl

A Different View on Seeing

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

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Maybe That’s the Point??

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



The only thing wrong with doing nothing is you never know when you’re finished.
— Anonymous

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The Search for Truth

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
— Dogen

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Perspective on Expectations

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.

— Michael J. Fox

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Opposites Attract

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



At every party there are two kinds of people — those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

— Ann Landers

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Different Take on a Mess

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

— Nancie J. Carmody

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Exercise Your Brain from a Young Age

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

— Dr. Seuss

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Mom’s Role in Life

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Falling, Falling, Falling in Love

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

-Mignon McLaughlin

The Art of Giving

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants… to give it lovingly and well.”

-Pamela Glenconner

The Worst Your Mom Can Do Is Say No…

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

-Joseph Wood Krutch

Good Eats

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like good cooking.

-James Beard

Comfort (and Joy)

On the spine of this month’s Real Simple:

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

-Jane Austen

Imagination vs Knowledge

From the binding of this month’s issue of Real Simple:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-Albert Einstein

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