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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars
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  • #2
    Natsuki Takaya
    “I love the stars.
    Because they can't say anything.
    I love the stars.
    Because they do not judge anyone.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: hoshi-wa-utau, stars, truth
    474 likes

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  • #3
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
    Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
    tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars
    1093 likes

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  • #4
    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
    2401 likes

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  • #5
    Lisa Mantchev
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
    tags: destiny, stars
    259 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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, Nature and Selected Essays
    tags: astronomy, beauty, heavens, nature, night, night-sky, religion, sky, stars
    744 likes

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  • #7
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    ― Seneca
    tags: latin, philosophy, stars
    1148 likes

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  • #8
    Rick Bragg
    “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
    221 likes

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  • #9
    Carl Sagan
    “We are all star stuff.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: science, stars
    165 likes

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  • #10
    Vera Nazarian
    “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, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: aim, aim-high, deep, effort, far-reaching, goal, goals, journey, limits, narrow, range, reach, reach-out, reaching-out, stars, trip, universe, wide
    254 likes

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  • #11
    Stevie Nicks
    “Love is only one fine star away.”
    ― Stevie Nicks
    tags: astronomy, hope, love, stars
    108 likes

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  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
    tags: stars
    87 likes

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  • #14
    “When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.”
    ― Louise Philippe
    tags: darkness, inspiration, stars
    128 likes

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  • #16
    “There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.”
    ― Frances Clark
    97 likes

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  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt
    tags: language, poetry, stars
    69 likes

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  • #18
    “Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.”
    ― Jack Tempchin
    tags: enlightenment, knowledge, stars, understanding, wisdom
    33 likes

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  • #19
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
    ― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    tags: advice, stars
    817 likes

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  • #20
    Ivan Doig
    “The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”
    ― Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
    tags: stars
    34 likes

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  • #21
    Isabella Olivia Ellis
    “Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.”
    ― Isabella Olivia Ellis, Love After The Gone
    tags: apocalypse, love, stars
    23 likes

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  • #22
    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
    tags: perspective
    1454 likes

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  • #23
    Draya Mooney
    “Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.”
    ― Draya Mooney
    tags: beauty, life-lessons, meaning-of-life, stars
    96 likes

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  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “How is it possible for one to own the stars?"
    "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly.
    "I don't know. To nobody.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: stars
    15 likes

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  • #25
    Nyrae Dawn
    “The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we’ve both looked at each of them together.”
    ― Nyrae Dawn, Four Summers
    tags: charlotte, nathaniel, stars, summer-four
    6 likes

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  • #26
    Carl Sagan
    “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: beauty, sense-of-wonder, stars
    150 likes

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  • #27
    Cordwainer Smith
    “We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...”
    ― Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man
    23 likes

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  • #28
    “wherever you go,wherever you live, still the stars up there will remain the same, as they were when we were together.”
    ― Jaymin Panchasara
    tags: life, stars
    5 likes

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  • #29
    John W Lord
    “Stars are God’s way of showing us that light can survive the darkness and shine through – that there is hope; even in dark times. That the darkness isn’t all there is.”
    ― J. W. Lord
    tags: darkness, god, light, stars
    4 likes

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  • #30
    “Head for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars”
    ― David Gandy
    tags: david-gandy, inspirational, moon, stars
    9 likes

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  • #31
    “A dreamer is a gifted man ,who, plucks out his dreams of sparkling stars.”
    ― sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
    tags: dreamer, dreams, stars
    5 likes



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