Earth Quotes - Page 24

• There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Unconditional Love, Heaven, Greater Power

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• How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Space, Mind

  "Landmark US library set to close" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

  Joseph Campbell

  Beautiful, Views, Broken

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• Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Bringing Peace

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 20, 2012

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• There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

  Fredric Brown

  Men, Doors, Horror Stories

  "From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown".

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• A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fire, Rocks, Sky

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• The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wind, Sea, Dancing

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• No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Rain, Borders

  "Obama: Israel has "right to defend itself" By Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cbsnews.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

  Pema Chodron

  One Day At A Time, Benefits, Way

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.146, Shambhala Publications

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• As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she
  manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again,
  by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

  Eric Maisel

  Laughter, Artist, Feet

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• Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Grieving, Clouds, Hands

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• When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Goal, Ordinary, Roaring

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• The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

  Richard Bach

  Quality, Our Love, Matter

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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• No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  People, Justice, Humanity

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.

  John Neihardt

  Stars, Native American, Moon

  "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, (Ch. 17), 1961.

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• Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

  Adam Rogers

  Thinking, Cities, Hot

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• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

  Petrarch

  Climbing, Mountain, Height

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• The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

  Richard Allen

  Blue, Sky, White

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

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• According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

  Richard Allen

  Sky, Tree, World

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.1, The Miegunyah Press

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• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

  Rene Daumal

  Men, Sky, Mountain

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• It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

  Helen Caldicott

  Nature, Clue, Should

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

  Stella Reid

  Nature, Mean, Eye

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

  Liv Ullmann

  Believe, Passion, Order

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