#heavens

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

#beauty #heavens #nature #night #night-sky

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #attaining #disk #goal #goals

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. ↗

— Amy Tan

#heavens #star #love

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#among #discover #forces #gods #heavens

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#comparison #does #earth #heavens #indeed

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fingers #heavens #heel #her #nailed

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#both #darkness #eclipse #glory #go

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#between #bond #dance #heavens #love

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. ↗

— Anne Frank

#alone #because #best #does #feel

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#cover #heavens #more #nothing #poetic