We walk up the beach under the stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim. This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy–even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
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Sorin Cerin
Witches are naturally nosy, ” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”“ Will it cost me anything?”“ What? I just said it was free! ” said Miss Tick.“Yes, but...
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Terry Pratchett
His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.
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James S.A. Corey
My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations
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John Green
Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?
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Gail White
More Quotes By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and...
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
