Quotes on MOON and SUN

"The moon is very rugged." ~Alan Bean

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Nnie Que 

THE SPLENDOUR OF THE MOON

He made the moon also, to serve in its season, to mark the times and to be an everlasting sign.

From the moon comes the sign for feast days, a light that wanes when it has reached the full.

The month is named for the moon, increasing marvelously in its phases, an instrument of the hosts on high shining forth in the firmament of heaven.

Ecclesiastes 43:6-8

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"The moon is at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields with light.
The airs that hover in the summer sky
Are all asleep to-night."
~William C. Bryant

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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde

"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines" ~Benjamin Franklin

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.” ~John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

"A man's work is from sun to sun. But a mother's work is never done." ~Anon 

"A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate." ~Philip Sydney

"A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence - because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick up the gravel." ~John Keats

"A rare phenomenon tonight. Super Moon (perigee) + Blue Moon (second full moon in one month) + Blood Moon (Total Lunar Eclipse) all in one night. Watch the skies and hope there is no cloud cover or rain that would spoil it." ~Harold Tan, 31 January 2018

"A rising sun, about to eviscerate a winter night." ~Jon T. Hermosisima 

“After the rain, the sun will reappear.
There is life. After the pain,
the joy will still be here.”
~Walt Disney Company

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." ~W. Clement Stone

"All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.” ~Shannon L. Alder

"Among the most serene moments I love to do are observing the dawn breaks, witnessing the setting sun and watching the starry night sky while listening to the melodies of the nature." ~Duoi Ampilan

"Arguing from exception is like judging the moon harshly for its total eclipses rather than for the reflective light it benefits and blesses us with regularly." ~Bryan Ng Co

"As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon" – Russian Proverb

"Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things they are transformed." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”  ~ Khalil Gibran

“Be like the strength of the sun and you can conquer the world in your Journey.” ~Anon

"Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." ~Oscar Wilde

"Better were the days when we used candles and kerosene lamps for our humble night light in the absence of the moon and stars." ~©Leah C. Dancel, July 2, 2021

"BLUE MOON does not mean the moon turns blue. It means you get to have two full moons within the month. ...BLOOD MOON is when the moon turns red and only happens when there is full lunar eclipse. The shadow of the earth do not turn the moon black but somehow reddish. ...SUPER MOON because the moon is unusually closer to the earth and appears bigger." ~Mei Li, FB, January 31, 2018

“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” ~John Lenon

"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth." ~Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ~Alexander Graham Bell

"Despite the sun fighting the clouds to come out, I'm enjoying my peaceful solitude walk with nothing but the sounds of the ocean waves rolling in." ~Mary (Miemie) V. Cowan

“Don’t compare your child to others. There’s no comparison between the Sun and Moon. They shine when it’s their time.” Anon

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ~Anton Chekhov

"Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time." ~Scott Stabile

"Dreams are made of sand, sun and sea…" ~Anon

"Each moment, moon, you beckon me to come.

You yourself know, but you ask how l am.

You're a cypress and words to you are wind;

I speak, and enraptured, you sway and bend."

~Rumi

"Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon." ~Rumi

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'You owe Me'. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the Whole sky." ~Hafiz

"Even dark clouds surrounds the wondrous sky, still sun will make a way to shine and reveal the wonders of the earth“ ~Kristine Andaya Ventura

"Even if you are a smallest forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary." ~Nayyirah Waheed

"..., even if it is just a brief touch of the sun, will set your soul on fire." ~Thomas Plummer

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." ~Mark Twain

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock." ~Anaxagoras

“First here was the Sun, who was young once and is now a grandparent of many powers. But the Sun will one day go into the Void. That’s the power of the Heyoka—the Void.” ~Ruby Plenty Chiefs

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." ~Christopher Columbus

"For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us." ~Richard H. Baker

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun." ~Khalil Gibran

"From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself." ~Gabriel Byrne

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go." ~Tom Hanks

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life." ~Jean Paul

"He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down." ~Psalm 104:19 (NIV)

"Head for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars” ~David Gandy from Gary Hayes Photography

"Hope is like the sun, which as we travel behind it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." ~Samuel Smiles

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir

"I see the beauty of life better under the moon and the stars." ~Ricardo Perez

"I don't want someone who promises me the moon and stars … I just want someone who promises to lay down on the grass and watch them with me." ~Enchanting Minds

"I see the world through eyes of love.
I see love in every flower,
In the sun and the moon,
And in every person I meet."
~Louise L. Hay

"I thought the only lonely place was on the moon." ~Paul McCartney

‪"I was in awe as I observed it driving away from Parkes, NSW. 'Twas an orange faced-moon rising as the sun was setting. Awesome‬!" ~Cynthia V. Walker, on March 21, 2019 Summer Equinox (Supermoon)

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out." ~William Blake

"If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?" ~Kylie Bax

"If you cry because the sun has got out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." ~Rabindranath Tagore

"If you see the moon, you will see the beauty of God.
If you see the sun, you will see the power of God.
If you see the mirror, you will see God's best creation.
So believe it." ~Charlie Chaplain

"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot." ~Confucius

"If you show someone the sun in your bones and they reject you, you must remember, they hurt themselves this very same way." ~Nayyirah Waheed

"If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence." ~James Wood

"I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding." ~Janet Rebhan, Finding Tranquility Base

"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!" ~Van Morrison

"In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink." ~Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Is there anything in the world more charming than the way Tulips hold up their little faces to the sun? " ~Nat Davidson, @Nature Delights

“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.” ~Galileo Galilei

"It's like a finger pointing to the moon... Don't concentrate on the finger, because you will miss all the heavenly glory..." ~Bruce Lee (Enter the Dragon)

"Just as the sun awakens us to a new day, the spirit of God within awakens us to divine glory in all creation. This glory, within and around us, is everywhere we look and in every situation we encounter." ~Silent Unity

"Just like the moon, we go through phases." ~Dulce Ruby

"Kindness has a beautiful way of reaching down into a weary heart and making it shine like the rising sun." ~Anon

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." ~Victor Hugo

"Life's true gift lies in your freedom to design it beautifully. With each rise of the sun, you get to chase the opportunity to fill your days with meaning—to live your life the way you choose." ~from Success dot com via Haizer Adrias Libcat, FB

"Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year." ~Anon

"Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake." ~Rumi

“Love the earth and sun and animals.” ~Walt Whitman

"Love without Friendship is like a shadow without a sun." ~Anon

"Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain. But at the peak, we all gaze at the single bright moon." ~Ikkyu

"May I sleep kissing the face of the moon tonight." ~Leah C. Dancel (Supermoon, March 21, 2019)

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." ~Gautama Buddha

"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is." ~Olive Schreiner

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi ~ The Essential Rumi

"Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon." ~H. L. Mencken

"Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself is beautiful." ~Plotinus

“Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.”  ~Ernest Hemingway

"Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking." ~Rumi

"Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea." ~Phythagoras

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars." ~Les Brown

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night." ~Hal Borland

"Sun is alone too, but still shines." ~Anon

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

"That inspiring moment of the day when you see the glorious sun hiding behind the trees as you walked home preparing to set." ~Leah C. Dancel

"The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons." ~Frank S. Nugent

"The dance between darkness and light will always remain - the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and stars." ~C. Joybell C.

"The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear." ~Anatoly Chubais

"The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the result of that love." ~Chief Sitting Bull

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle." ~Nicolaus Copernicus

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.” ~Confucius

"... The full bright moon is a BLESSING served on a silver platter. And to experience the beauty and tranquillity of the night is LIFE itself and I'm just too grateful to be part of this." ~Ricardo Perez

"The growing and dying of the moon reminds us of our ignorance which comes and goes, but when the moon is full it is as if the Great Spirit were upon the whole world." ~Black Elk, Sioux

"The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork." ~Walter Lang

"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty." ~Lyndon B. Johnson

"The moon blankets the earth with its silver glow, and cools the night with glittering stars." ~Dora Domingues

"The moon doesn't consider one phase better than another; she just glows, equally stunning at each turn. Why should we be any different? ~Cristen Rogers

"The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole." ~Lang Leav

"The moon has dripped gold
onto us
from all of the nights
that we laid awake
under the stars
dreaming with our hearts
and singing with our souls."
~Emily Marie McBride

"The moon is brighter since the barn burned." ~Matsuo Basho

"The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it." ~James A. Lovell

"The moon is like the life we live: full of imperfections but still beautiful." ~Teresita Mariano Barrera

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." ~Jean Ingelow

"The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands." ~Pierre Loti

“The moon teaches us that darkness can’t hide the beauty of life if we know how to reflect beauty.” ~Debasish Mridha

"The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive." ~N.D. Wilson

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” ~Shannon L. Alder

“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun." —Napoleon Hill

"The sun did not know how beautiful its light was, until it was reflected off this building." ~Louis Kahn, American architect on Sydney Opera House.

"The sun bathe itself in water." ~Isak Dinesen, Babette's Feast Movie

"The sun does not know who is right or who is wrong. It shines without purpose and provides warmth to all." ~The Wisdom of Samurai

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." ~Charles Dickens

"The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.” ~S. Ajna

"The sun is smiling. The day is warming up. There is no denying we are face to face with Spring!!" ~Mariquita Nosce Tandoc

"The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us." ~Dennis Banks

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "The sun starts to kneel,

From dawn it turns into dusk.

A circle of life."

@Leni Flores Pelegrin 

"The sun, the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man - burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-colored glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray." ~Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." ~Henry Ellis

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day." ~Robert Frost

"The sun will go down - and when it does, who among us will appreciate its color, let alone its beauty?" ~Leah C. Dancel, December 8, 2011

"The sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light, While it's here is up to us." ~Alexandra Elle

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." ~Galileo Galilei

“The truthful love is the great sun in the hearts of the people who know how to keep it.” ~ Hàn Quốc Vũ

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." ~Matsuo Basho

"There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms." ~Laini Taylor

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism." ~Virginia Woolfe

"This morning we rose with the sun to celebrate the world's oldest living culture.
We cleansed the way for new beginnings by taking part in the WugulOra 'One Mob' smoking ceremony at Walumil Lawns at Barangaroo Reserve." ~AUSTRALIA DAY-FB, #AusDaySyd, #australiaday2020, January 26, 2020

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." ~Buddha

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other." ~Sojourner Truth

"To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us to remember WHO is the real provider of all of our benefits." ~Thomas Yellowtail

"To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes." ~Rumi

"Today, the sun will rise on all your doubts." ~Marty Rubin

"Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings." ~Rumi

"Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." ~Tiny Buddha

"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side." ~Khalil Gibran

"We ran as if to meet the moon." ~Robert Frost

"We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new." ~Burt Rutan

"Well, it's a marvellous night for a moondance." ~Van Morrison

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous." ~Thomas Merton

"What is arrogance? It is being oblivious and insensible to what is essential, as the ice is unaware of the sun. When ice becomes conscious of the sun, it doesn’t last long: it warms and melts and flows away." ~Jalaladdin Rumi

"What is broken can be mended. What hurts can be healed. And no matter how dark it gets, the sun is going to rise again." ~Daily Vibes

"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

"When a morning winter sun peeks through my kitchen window and brings sparkle to my favourite place where I boil water in a kettle and help myself to a nice cup of coffee." ~Leah C. Dancel, 27 August 2017

"When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator" ~Mahatma Gandhi

"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set." ~Lyn Yutang

"When struggling to find new pathways, try talking to the moon, a perfect accomplice for all things relating to the heart." ~Steve Parish, THE ACCOMPLICE

"When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly." ~Anon

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” ~George R.R. Martin

"When you forgive, you bring a moon to your own darkness." ~Gede Prama

"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

“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have to be able to appreciate these things. How many people can say it was a full moon last night and appreciate it?" ~Sandy Miller

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"Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness." ~Allen Ginsberg

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"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight." ~Rumi

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“Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.” ~Bruce Coville

"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. " ~Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

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"The sun is empty, so is the moon. River water forever flows eastward. Farm and house too are empty, continually changing owners." ~Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, "Sunset Ballad".

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." ~from THE PROPHET (1923) - Khalil Gibran

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