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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Daughter, Ocean, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

  David Bowie

  Blow, Thinking, Waiting

  Song: Starman, 1972

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• You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, God, Challenges

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• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sunset, Fire, Eggs

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”

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• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anchors, Walking Meditation, Breathing

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

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• 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

  Love, Valentines Day, Letting Go

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “This Is Love”

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• Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

  Unknown

  Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

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• 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

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

  Louise Erdrich

  Romantic, People, Common Sense

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• If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

  Jack Kornfield

  Ocean, Heart, Lakes

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• It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Stars

  Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Tea, Wonderland

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  George Eliot

  Blessed, Golden, Symbols

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

  Thomas Hood

  Summer, Autumn, Gorgeous

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.164

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• The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

  Dogen

  Moon, Relaxation, Zen Buddhism

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• Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Struggle, Space, Mind

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• I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

  Rumi

  Prayer, Heart, Drag

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, God, Faith

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Life Changing, Ideas

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Blue, Color

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• 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

  Uplifting, Stars, Looks

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• Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

  Elbert Hubbard

  Peace, Men, Trying

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

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