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The universe contains a staggering number of stars …

• At 13.7 billion years old, 45 billion light years across and filled with 100 billion galaxies – each containing hundreds of billions of stars – the Universe as revealed by modern science is humbling in scale and dazzling in beauty. Professor Brian Cox
• It’s an abundant universe. There is lots of everything for everyone if we but open ourselves up to it. Look at nature – lavish, extravagant, even wasteful in its abundance. Try and count the number of stars in the sky. Look at wildflowers in a field spreading out far beyond. John Kehoe.
• Its estimated that the number of stars in the universe is greater than the number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world! On a clear night, we can see the equivalent of a handful of sand.
• Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. Jalal Uddin Rumi
• The human brain is a highly differentiated form through which consciousness enters this dimension. It contains approximately one hundred billion nerve cells (called neurons), about the same number as there are stars in our galaxy, which could be seen as a macrocosmic brain. The brain does not create consciousness, but consciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. Eckhart Tolle
• Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.  Peter Watts
• The sky,  The sun,  The moon,  The universe,  Darkness,  Light,  Wonder,  Wonders of the universe

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… and a staggering amount of space between them

• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. Sir James Jeans
• All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them. Cassandra Clare
• The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant, so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning. Beth Revis, Across the Universe
• The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done. Ivan Doig
• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars — on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places. Robert Frost
• There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth. Heinz R. Pagels

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There are so many stars and solar systems that there being more life out there is almost a certainty

• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. Carl Sagan
• One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. Michio Kaku
• Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity. Wernher Von Braun

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Nothing draws us as irresistibly in as the stars

• 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

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Stars help us see the miracle of it all and fill us with awe and wonder

• All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles. Voltaire
• At 13.7 billion years old, 45 billion light years across and filled with 100 billion galaxies – each containing hundreds of billions of stars – the Universe as revealed by modern science is humbling in scale and dazzling in beauty. Professor Brian Cox
• Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life. R Search
• I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, and the Pismire ant is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren. Walt Whitman
• Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. Nora Roberts
• Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves with out wondering. Saint Augustine
• No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars. Llewelyn Powys
• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant
• Awe,  Wonder

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Stars uplift the spirit and leave their imprints on the soul

• We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night. Thomas Berry
• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man – Orison Swett Marten
• 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 Ruski
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Stars are full of divinity

• For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender flowers. Jean Paul Richter
• God wove a web of loveliness, of clouds and stars and birds, but made not anything at all so beautiful as words. Anna Hempstead Branch
• God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther
• I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars… I awaken everything to life. Ildergard of Bingen
• 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
• Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories…legends and history of man’s quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God’s hands? Dan Brown
• 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
• The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars. Albert Pike
• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature –     trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
• I have … a terrible need … shall I say the word? … of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars. Vincent van Gogh
• I, a city dweller, have a summer place on a cedar-crested bluff overlooking a lovely bay down by the sea. The salt breezes off the mighty ocean sweep cares away; the soft sunlight falling on the grass teaches me the quiet repose of earth; the unhurried sounds of the natural world, so different in quality from strident city noises, quiet me as a mother soothes her troubled child; and at night when the stars come out, blossoming one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven, and a hush falls over land and sea, I can hear the friendly voice of Mother Nature, which is the voice of God, saying:  “My child, this is life.  Take time to live it.”  Norman Vincent Peale
• Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job 22:12
• If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. B. S. Haldane
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Stars are full of romance

• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we’d eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we’d save some of the dessert and play with it while making out. Karen McDougal
• For you, a comet, under a blue sky, leaves trail of color, For you, a star, dreams of being able to kiss you, dream to hear your voice For you, full moon, keep vigil for you, my girl, keep vigil for you, my love. Michelangelo Saez
• It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. Tahereh Mafi
• Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe
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Stars are full of mystery

• Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was. Ransom Riggs
• The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. Andre Malraux
• The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music… The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words. Rabindranath Tagore
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Stars are the jewels of the sky and the poetry of heaven

• Ye stars, which are the poetry of heaven. Lord Byron
• There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven… Jack Johnson
• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender flowers. Jean Paul Richter
• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant
• There is not death! The stars go down to rise upon some other shore, and bright in heaven’s jeweled crown, they shine for ever more. John L. McCreery
• What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth?  And are not our stars the flowers of heaven?  Clara Balfour
• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,—though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,—that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. Henry David Thoreau
• This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. Rick Bragg
• We climbed up.until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars. Dante Alighieri
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Stars are like musical notes creating a divine symphony

• To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores.  Machado de Assis
• Look at the stars sometimes. They are only notes They are music. Pat Conroy

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Be content for what more could you ask for than the stars

• A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. Victor Hugo
• Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars. Bette Davis
• Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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Learn from the stars for they have much to teach

• I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me.  The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars.  I walk without arrogance.  I learn from all I encounter.  I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.  Julia Cameron
• Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education. David Polis
• I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Herman Hesse
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Lie under the night sky and gaze out into the stars …

• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
• I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. Edward Abbey
• If I had my child to raise all over again, I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later. I’d finger- paint more, and point the finger less.  I would do less correcting and more connecting.  I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.  I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.  I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.  I’d do more hugging and less tugging.  Diane Loomans
• If people sat outside at night and looked at the stars each night I bet they would live a lot differently. Bill Watterson
• 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
• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. Regina Brett
• It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Mark Twain
• The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. Michael Josephson

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… imagining you only got see that sight once in your life

• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life isn’t long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive.  In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is.  Supposing you only saw the stars once every year.  Think what you would think.  The wonder of it!  Tasha Tudor

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Gaze at the stars and fill yourself with their wonder …

• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? Jeb Bush
• Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away. Carl Sagan
• To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight. Henry David Thoreau
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… and their beauty …

• Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Marcus Aurelius    
• Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself. Draya Mooney
• He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter…. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. John Burroughs
• How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green. . . the flowers are more fragrant. . .  and the sun, moon and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.  Orison Swett Marden
• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? Jeb Bush
• Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. Haruki Murakami
• 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
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… and their peace and benevolence

• 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
• Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.  Lao Tzu
• When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in its beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.  I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.  I come into the presence of still water.  And I feel above me day-blind stars waiting for their light.  For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.  Wendell Berry
• I love the stars. Because they can’t say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone. Natsuki Takaya
• The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there. James Lovell
• When I look at the stars at night one always winks back at me. Loesje
• Inner peace,  Choose to believe in a benevolent mystery

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Gazing at the stars is one of the greatest and simplest joys of life

• 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
• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter … to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs
• Life is meant to be fun, and fun is a sure antidote to disappointment. A million things have brought me joy, or laughter, or most important, the experience of beauty.  Plant a potato, and discover a treasure chest of new ones when you dig them.  Walk down a northern path in the springtime, and try to count the dogwood blossoms and the trilliums.  Read Shakespeare.  Discover love.  Then look up at the stars and reach for them.  Richard Cutler
• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy.  Osho
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Sleep under the stars

• A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars. Alan S. Kesselheim
• Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. Albert Camus
• Wish upon the stars and pray to them
• There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. Frances Clark
• As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. Sascha
• Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. Francesca Lia Block  
• Sleep,  Camping

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Gazing at the stars can make you feel connected to the universe

• Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.  Lao Tzu
• 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
• A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question. Neil Gaiman
• Connectedness,  Connection

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Gazing at the stars can give you perspective

• There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness
• 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
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Gazing at the stars can make you feel less mortal

• Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. Ptolemy
• I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia. Ptolemy, Ptolemy’s Almagest
• I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend… Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
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Gazing at the stars can help you dream

• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent van Gogh
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You are no less part of the universe than the stars …

• Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. Max Ehrmann
• Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. Adlai Stevenson
• I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 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
• You are a second world in miniature; the sun and moon are within you, and also the stars. Origen
• Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. Ihab Hassan
• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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… created by the same force and made from the same stuff

• Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. Nicholai Velimirovic
• I am perfect because I am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. I am God’s creation. I don’t need to be what I am not. Miguel Ruiz
• Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves. Deepak Chopra

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In fact, your very body is made from the dust of exploded stars

• As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars. Anne Cushman
• We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars. Mary Carolyn Davies
• I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars. Eckhart Tolle
• We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. Sir Arthur Eddington
• Within each of us there is a silence – a silence as vast as the universe. We are afraid of it… and long for it. When we experience that silence, we remember who we are: creatures of the stars, created from the cooling of this planet, created from dust and gas, created from the elements, created from time and space… created from silence. Silence is the source of all that exists, the unfathomable silence where vibration began – the first oscillation, the first word, from which life emerged. Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals. Silence is where god dwells. We yearn to be there. We yearn to share it. Lois Huey-Heck
• The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.  Carl Sagan, Cosmos
• We are all star stuff. Carl Sagan
• The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan

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Stars are an abundant source of metaphors …

• A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. Guy Le Querrec
• 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
• Memories are the stars that brighten our dreams. Sharon Repp
• Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe. Criss Jami
• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. Gary Allan
• When you pity yourself, you begin to think of yourself as the center of creation, a sort of central sun around which the stars revolve–or should. You are out of focus. Elbert Hubbard
• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. William Wordsworth
• If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars. Fernan Caballero
• Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. Ben Jonson
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… a metaphor for ideals

• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz
• Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. Carl Schurz
• Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal. Carl Shurz

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… a metaphor for hope

• There are two kinds of doubt as there are two twilights: one growing darker and darker, the shadows gathering, moon and stars vanishing, leaving naught but silence and solitude; the other leading on to light and gladness, brighter and brighter until the shadows flee away and the day breaks. David James Burrell
• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. Henry Ford
• Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Charles H. Spurgeon
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… a metaphor for spiritual matters

• To attach oneself to a guru, an avatar, one religion, one creed, is to see the stars only. To put one´s faith in the Infinite Being and in its presence within the heart is to see the vast empty sky itself. The stars will come and go, will disintegrate and vanish, but the sky remains. Paul Brunton
• There is not death! The stars go down to rise upon some other shore, and bright in heaven’s jeweled crown, they shine for ever more. John L. McCreery
• When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars. Gautama Buddha
• Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves. Deepak Chopra
• I pointed out to you the stars (the moon) and all you saw was the tip of my finger. Tanzania Proverb
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… a metaphor for truth

• Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.  Khalil Gibran
• Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. Aberjhani
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… a metaphor for virtue

• Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars–not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the storm has passed. It is the light that hovers above the judgment-seat. H. Chapin
• We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were. Ronald Reagan  
• When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Akhenaton
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… a metaphor for love

• Love has no conditions. When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love.  Love is condition- less.  Love is barrier-less.  Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees. . . they are just on for everyone.  When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural.  Pujya Swamiji
• 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
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… a metaphor for destiny and fate

• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. Lisa Mantchev
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Just as there is a divine order in the movement of the stars, so there is an order to your own life …

• The Universe is in perfect order. The stars, the moon, and the sun are all operating in perfect Divine right order. There is an order, a rhythm, and a purpose to their pathways. I am part of the Universe; therefore, I know that there is an order, a rhythm, and a purpose to my life.  Louise L Hay
• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. Katherine Anne Porter
• You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs
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… for the force that guides the stars, guides you too

• You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too. Shrii Anandamurti
• For me, spirituality means seeing myself as a microscopic part of the cosmos. I believe that whatever force makes the day turn into night and night turn into day, and winter become spring and fall become winter; whatever keeps all the stars and planets going around perfectly in their orbits, creates new buds in spring and moves old leaves to drop away in autumn, can surely look after this one little life of mine. Joshua Rosenthal
• As engineer Nature creates a limitless universe with watch-like precision. She controls hundreds of billions of stars and their spinning planets.  Time and tide, night and day, the flow of magnetic currents, light and air are under her command.
• We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Alan Chadwick

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Do not curse the darkness for without if, we’d never see the stars

• Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars. Violeta Parra
• Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.
• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. Rabindranath Tagore
• In dark times, remember the darker it gets, the brighter the stars become.
• Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.
• When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.
• I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
• Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sarah Williams
• Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars. Carrie Hope Fletcher
• Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars. Laura Teresa Marquez
• Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper. Og Mandino
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In fact, the darker it becomes, the brighter the stars shine

• When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest. Louise Philippe
• It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. Richard Evans
• The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Your path is illuminated by the light. Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.  L.W. Brooks
• God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. David Nicholas
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Light, on the other hand, drowns out the stars

• Stars are not seen by sunshine. John Wodroephe
• Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Our destiny is to expand towards the stars

• Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. Barney Oliver
• We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind. Lakota Seer
• If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of a human become in its long journey toward the stars? K. Chesterton
• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. Brian Tracy
• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov
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Reach for the stars and you’ll make it to the moon …

• Aim for the stars and you’ll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you’ll never make it through the atmosphere. Ray Bedard
• Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars. Richard Branson
• If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. Confucius
• Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
• If you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon. Poor people don’t even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they’re not successful. T. Harv Eker
• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. Les Brown
• If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star. T. Barnum
• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
• When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud, either. Leo Burnett
• Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
• One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Benjamin E. Mays
• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. Ben Stein
• Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham
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… but also reach an equal distance into your own soul

• When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. Vera Nazarian
• We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind. Lakota Seer
• There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you – just reach deep into yourself!
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Keep your eyes on the stars but also your feet on the ground

• Having a Vision is not enough. It must be combined with imagination, determination, faith, hope and passion. It is not enough to just stare up at the stars…we must become the stars that the stars shine down on. Victoria June
• A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. Alexander Smith
• Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt
• Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.
• How you ever gonna reach the stars If you never get off the ground?  Big Time Rush
• And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw. Edmund Spenser
• Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham

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Do not grasp at the stars

• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. Robert Louis Stevenson

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Do not miss the stars by looking down all the time

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
• Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars. Dale Carnegie

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Thoughts on the stars and moon

• 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
• For the moon, though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, cannot. Chanakya
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Thoughts on the stars and love

• Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky. Santosh Kalwar
• The love that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri
• Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides.  Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.  Maya Angelou
• Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. E. Cummings
• What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo
• Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. William Shakespeare
• I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars. E. Lawrence
• I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars grow old… Bayard Taylor
• Love that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri
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• A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. Alexander Smith
• As I look out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it makes me realize how insignificant they are.
• The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. Benjamin Franklin
• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. Charles Kuralt
• We can’t all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
• Don’t Keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason. Jimmy Fallon
• A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.
• God makes stars. I just produce them. Samuel Goldwyn
• His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. Elias Canetti

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