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  In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.148, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Hero

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Business, Reality

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• What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

  John Milton

  Heaven, What If, Shadow

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 574

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• The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

  Country, Firsts, Climate Change

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Notebooks (1912)

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• When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

  Rumi

  Courage, Heart, Garden

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

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• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Perfection, Safe

  1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

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• That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

  Helen Keller

  Sunset, Mean, Sky

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

  Henry Beston

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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  When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Knight moves to Texas" by Kevin Asseo, news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

  Galileo Galilei

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Peace

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Eye, Moon, Journey

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Hope, Time

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  They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Native American, Environmental

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Space, Way

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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• Earth laughs in flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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