Sky Quotes - Page 2

• Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Ocean, Together We Can, Challenges

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• The brain is wider than the sky.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Learning, Psychology

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Calm Mind

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• The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Eye, Heart

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.73, Random House

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Failure, Adversity

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

  James Turrell

  Artist, Earth, Involved

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• 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, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

  Edward Young

  Men, Soul, Aliens

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.457

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• When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Nature, Stars, Doors

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Two, Shining

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• 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

  Clouds, Race, Wind

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  The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Clouds, Flying High

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4707, Delphi Classics

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• Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

  Cameron Crowe

  Change, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

  Anton Chekhov

  Peace, Inspiration, Losing A Loved One

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.29, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

  Art Wolfe

  Inspirational, Nature, Wild Places

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• 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

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.

  Ilona Andrews

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.128, Penguin

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• The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Beautiful, Moon, Sun

  Alfred Kreymborg, “Old Manuscript”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

  Plotinus

  Stars, Together, Events

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• No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Good Night, Sight, Environment

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

  Joel Brown

  Life, People, Limits

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2017

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