Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
Ali Ibn Abi TalibRead
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Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.
And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.
You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins,_x000D_ till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and_x000D_ perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than_x000D_ so, because men and women are in it who are every one sole heirs as well_x000D_ as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight, as misers do in gold, and_x000D_ kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.
The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. _x000D_ Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. _x000D_ Now, think. _x000D_ What delight God gives to humankind _x000D_ with all these things . _x000D_ All nature is at the disposal of humankind. _x000D_ We are to work with it. For _x000D_ without we cannot survive.
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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.
Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.
The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
The House_x000D_ _x000D_ ...She lays her beams in music,_x000D_ In music everyone,_x000D_ To the cadence of the whirling world_x000D_ Which dances around the sun-_x000D_ That so they shall not be displaced_x000D_ By lapses or by wars,_x000D_ But for the love of happy souls_x000D_ Outlive the newest stars.
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.
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