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The sky is a grand and magnificent spectacle …   

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo
• Such a magnificent sky, and it’s nothing but white paper! Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Clouds,  The moon,  The sun,  Stars

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… a thing of great beauty…  

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.  John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold. Thomas Cole
• The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. Alfred Kreymborg
• It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: ‘there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress – what did I know – until now? Unica Zürn
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… a miracle…  

• People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh

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The sky is the walking ground of the sun and moon   

• The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. Alfred Kreymborg
• The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. Frederick L. Knowles
• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. William C. Bryant
• The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness. D. H. Lawrence
• The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves…. the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Neil Gaiman, Stardust
• The sun,  The moon

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The sky is nature’s great canvas …   

• Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Khalil Gibran
• Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Khalil Gibran
• Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. Jules Feiffer
• The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation… such is the nature of art. Jeb Dickerson
• The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin

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… a canvas for the clouds   

• The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation… such is the nature of art. Jeb Dickerson
• …gorgeous bright blue sky with some cloudacious beautiness on the fringe. Terri Guillemets
• A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. Washington Irving
• Clouds are the sky’s imagination. Terri Guillemets
• When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all ‘rose.’ Francois Hollande
• Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. Albert Smith (clouds)
• It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
• The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time. Dan Millman
• Look up! What is that apparition of dazzling brightness rising softly upon the blue sky from behind those tall and massive elms? If you saw it for the first time in your life, you would say it must be some celestial visitant. Is it light itself from heaven taking shape, and just softened and subdued to the endurance of a mortal vision? It is nothing but a cloud!—mere vapour that the unseen wind moves and moulds, and that the sun shines on for a little time. William Smith
• Clouds

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The sky is alive with colour …   

• Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures. John Ruskin
• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. Cecil Beaton
• Colour

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… sometimes a deep blue …   

• I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. Oscar Wilde
• A red apple isn’t red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn’t… Keith Crown
• I never get tired of the blue sky. Vincent van Gogh
• The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. Willa Sibert Cather
• The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
• Now and then an ominous black cloud had blotted-out the sun from our sight, and poured down a deluge till it had spent itself, and then had left the sky glaringly bright and blue… Alfred Rowland
• May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue. Irish Blessing
• A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. Terri Guillemets

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… sometimes grey …   

• Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a “colourless” day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour…. A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens. G.K. Chesterton
• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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… sometimes gloomy and dark …   

• The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. Charles Dickens
• The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky…. Joseph Conrad
• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. Muriel Spark

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… sometimes the spectacular crimson of sunrise and sunset …   

• There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes. Bob Dylan
• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. Pamela Hansford Johnson
• The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
• Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. Vera Nazarian
• Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once. Marilyn vos Savant
• It was a rich and gorgeous sunset – an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. Francis Parkman
• Sunrises and sunsets

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… sometimes the spectacular colours of the rainbow …   

• So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. Isaac Watts
• Rainbows apologize for angry skies. Sylvia Voirol
• No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you’re lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. Harriet Du Autermont
• Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness. It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out. Bible, Ecclesiasticus
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There is a particular luster in the autumn sky   

• How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! Thomas Hood
• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves…. the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Neil Gaiman, Stardust
• Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Fernando Pessoa
• Autumn

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The sky is beloved by artists   

• Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. Jules Feiffer
• As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals. Wilferd A. Peterson
• Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. Elizabeth Murray
• How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. Ben Shahn
• The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment’s peace – and even whole-being rejuvenation – by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky. Eric Maisel
• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. Pablo Picasso
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The sky meets the earth and sea …   

• That’s a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere
• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. Virginia Woolf
• Let the blue sky meet the blue sea and all is blue for a time. Moncy Barbour
• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. Diane Ackerman

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… and is vast and boundless …   

• Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky. John Grogan
• When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. Julia Gregson
• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Zedong
• The night sky is a miracle of infinitude. Terri Guillemets

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… without limits   

• The sky is not my limit…I am. F. Hodge
• Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
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The sky personifies freedom   

• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. Bob Dylan
• If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons. Ilona Andrews, Fate’s Edge
• Freedom

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The sky gives birth to the rain …   

• Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike
• No doubt the phenomena of cloud-formation are designed primarily to water the earth; to gather together the moisture from the salt sea, and form dark, unwholesome fens; to purify them by the mysterious alchemy of the sky; to carry them onward by sweeping storm or by gentle zephyr, and let them descend gently in the mist, or steadily in the rain, which will waken sleeping seeds, and revive drooping vegetation. Alfred Rowland
• Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. Arna Bontemps

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… and to the snow   

• A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky – unbidden – and seems like a thing of wonder. Susan Orlean
• Snow

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Sit alone under the sky  

• I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. Björk
• I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. Audrey Hepburn

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Look out into the sky by day…   

• Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful! Mehmet Murat ildan
• The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there. K. D. Lang
• Look around you…Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what’s happening in the wide world. Nancy Farmer

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… out into the deep blue …

• I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. Oscar Wilde
• I never get tired of the blue sky. Vincent van Gogh

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… watching the clouds floating by …

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
• A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. Washington Irving

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… and look also out into the awe and wonder of the night sky   

• No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. Llewelyn Powys
• Walk outside on a clear night and just look up into the sky. You are sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Though you can only see a few thousand stars, there are hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone. In fact, it is estimated that there are over a trillion stars in the Spiral Galaxy. And that galaxy would look like one star to us if we could even see it. You’re just standing on one little ball of dirt and spinning around one of the stars. From that perspective, do you really care what people think about your clothes or your car? Do you really need to feel embarrassed if you forget someone’s name? Michael Singer
• No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. Llewelyn Powys
• I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly – or ever – gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. Brian Greene
• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.   Robin S. Sharma
• It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky… a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. Victor Hugo
• A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. Natalie Wood
• For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. Willa Sibert Cather
• The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. Thomas Hardy
• Awe

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Throw your head back and laugh at the sky   

• When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. Gautama Buddha

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Reach out and touch the sky   

• Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person. Thich Nhat Hanh
• You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky. Paul Auster
• Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
• We’d never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. Emily Dickinson
• Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Rumi

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Aim for the sky   

• Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor. Bill Shankly
• I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky. Scott Fortino

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Feel the benevolence of the sky …   

• The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. Henry Morton Stanley
• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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… and allow yourself to be filled with its peace and restfulness   

• I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov
• Untroubling and untroubled where I lie, the grass below, above, the vaulted sky. Clare John
• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong. E. M. Forster
• Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. Ojibwe Proverb
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Allow yourself to be filled with a sense of perspective …   

• When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. Julia Gregson
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… and allow your spirit to be filled with joy   

• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleanora Duse
• The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. Uvavnuk
• It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. John Ruskin
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See God in the marvel of the sky   

• We stand, every day and every night, in the very presence of a power so incomparable as to make the senses reel. And yet, happily, this power–the intelligence behind all the marvels of the summer sky– is a benevolent one.  The person who pays atention will hear, deep within his or her soul, a quiet and friendly voice saying:  “This, and so much more also, is yours to share.”  Vernon R. Harris
• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. Sai Baba
• God

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Give thanks to God for the sky   

• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.  Walter Rauschenbusch
• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. E. E. Cummings
• Thank God, all you who have a spark of rational piety in your hearts, for the glorious commonplace of earth and sky, – for this cloud-embosomed planet in which you pass your lives. William Smith, Gravenhurst

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We look to the sky for God …   

• I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid – I would talk to God, talk to the sky. Queen Latifah
• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. Eric Hoffer
• It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller

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… while all the while God is in us   

• I talk to God but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath
• You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts
• The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. Buddha
• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon

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Let the sky teach you important things   

• …I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. Mark Nepo
• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock
• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings. William C. Bryant

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Look to the sky for answers   

• In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. Ishmael Beah

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Never lose sight of the sky by looking down   

• Don’t hold your head so low that you don’t see the sky.
• Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. Anaïs Nin
• 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 marvellously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. Thich Nhat Hanh

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The sky is an abundant source of metaphors …   

• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Zedong
• I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? Chuang Tzu
• Metaphors to live by

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… spiritual metaphors …

• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I’m always at home – yea, I’m always at Om. Eden Ahbez
• Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. Indra Devi
• And when the day arrives I’ll become the sky and I’ll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now. Trent Reznor

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… metaphors for love and connection …

• True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. Jim Bishop
• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi
• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Love,  Connection

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… metaphors for life …

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
• For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Passion isn’t something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you’re actually doing every day. Marcus Buckingham
• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Seneca

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… metaphors for the divine order and pattern of things …

• A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed… It feels an impulsion… this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. Richard Bach
• When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. Gautama Buddha
• The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time. Dan Millman
• Divine order

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… metaphors for the soul …

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo
• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. Edna St. Vincent Millay
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… metaphors for sorrows and disasters …

• Sorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky; they cannot injure the blue depths of space. Your duty is just to strive on from this very moment. Do not vacillate or postpone. Who knows when death knocks? May be, he may knock this very night, this very moment; therefore, do not delay. Do you postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day! Feed the spirit as scrupulously as you now feed the body. Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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… metaphors for death …

• Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky. Buddha
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… metaphors for change

• A man’s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. Japanese Proverb
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You are the sky and your thoughts and emotions are but only clouds passing over   

• Afflictive emotions — our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear — can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned. Tenzin Gyatso
• Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba
• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. Thich Nhat Hanh
• You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. Eckhart Tolle
• You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. Pema Chodron
• Thoughts just appear. They come out of nothing and go back to nothing, like clouds moving across the empty sky. They come to pass, not to stay. There is no harm in them until we attach to them as if they were true.
• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness. Kathleen McDonald
• Let your worries go. Notice that when you don’t try to control the anxious thoughts that pop up, they soon pass, like clouds moving across the sky. It’s only when you engage your worries that you get stuck.  Jeanne Segal
• Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. Anaïs Nin

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Let meditation help you clear the clouds from your sky   

• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don’t come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation. Rajneesh
• The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death. Sogyal Rinpoche

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Remember that beyond even the darkest clouds, the sky is always blue   

• Grey skies are just clouds passing over.
• There is a big blue sky waiting just beyond the clouds.
• The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. Danish Proverb

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We all live under the same sky   

• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. Konrad Adenauer
• We all drink from one water. We all breathe from one air. We rise from one ocean. And we live under one sky.  Anwar Fazal
• There is the sky, which is all men’s together. Euripides

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Think of your body as a conduit between the earth and sky   

• Holding an asana like Warrior One, with my legs stretched in a lunge and my arms reaching up, I feel grounded and free at the same time. I can sense my body acting as a conduit between the earth and the sky, and feel my breath flowing with this sacred energy. Jonathan Urla, Yogilates

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Water holds the sky in its reflection   

• Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.  Dogen
• The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky? Hilda Conkling
• The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. Dogen
• Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. Indra Devi
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Let the sky fall if it will   

• If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. Francois Rabelais
• When it seems like the sky is about to collapse, relax, that’s just the roof caving in. Jarod Kintz
• Let the sky fall, when it crumbles we will stand tall and face it all together. Adele
• I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make. Steven Spielberg

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• If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. Arthur McAuliff
• If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport. Laura Davenport
• When it seems like the sky is about to collapse, relax, that’s just the roof caving in. Jarod Kintz
• Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
• My expectations are sky low, because I’m standing on a mountaintop. Jarod Kintz
• As I look out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it makes me realize how insignificant they are.

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