Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you."
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Stars
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Liam James
Author
"Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist."
Huey Newton
Activist
"The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars."
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"Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above."
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"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."
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"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
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"Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star."
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"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)"
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"The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
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"As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?"
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"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever."
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"I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves."
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"Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children."
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"The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?"
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"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value."
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"I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars."
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"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun."
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"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness"
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"He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature. I am the stars, I am the waves, I am the Life of all, I am the laughter within all hearts, I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul. I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. ""
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"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."
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"And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind."
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"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis."
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"Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you."
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