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Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

by Lao Tzu

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May 09, 2019 08:51AM

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“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: blue, night, night-sky, painted, sky, strokes

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“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
― Ptolemy

tags: eternity, mortality, night-sky, sky, stars

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“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
― Pema Chödrön

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“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

tags: change, climate, nature, sky, soul, travel

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“If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: children, literature

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