Karleen

“In the Milky Way, which is about 110,000 light-years across, our sun is just one of between 100 and 400 billion stars, most hosting their own planets. Galaxies, like egos, come in varying sizes, and while ours is fairly spacious, there are others like the Andromeda galaxy (our neighbor) that are much, much larger.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

“Learning about the universe does little for earthly self-esteem. Our sun, powerful enough to turn white skin bronze and coax oxygen from every plant on earth, ranks fairly low by galactic standards. If the giant star Antares were positioned where our sun is—93 million miles away—the earth would be inside it! And our sun and Antares represent just two of 400 billion stars that swim around in the vast, forlorn space of the Milky Way. A dime held out at arm's length would block 15 million stars from view, if our eyes could see with unlimited power.”
― Philip Yancey, Finding God in Unexpected Places: Revised and Updated

“Time is a river that meanders, branching out into tributaries and rivulets, depositing sediments of stories along its shores in the hope that someday, someone, somewhere, will find them. The”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Each year 40,000 tons of this starry dust falls to Earth; it contains the elements that will be used ceaselessly, throughout every living thing, around the entire planet.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe