William S. Halsey - thistle

"All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble." ~William S. Halsey

Debasish Mridha Quotes

“Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again.” ~Debasish Mridha (from Grace Olsson)

"At sunrise, the blue sky paints herself with gold colors and joyfully dances to the music of a morning breeze." ~Debasish Mridha

My solo adventure to Southern Highlands passing Bowral by train.

29 August 2023

"Clouds can never hide the sun forever, so don't complain about clouds but never forget to welcome the sun." ~Debasish Mridha

"Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising." ~Debasish Mridha

"Every sunrise is a poem written on the earth with words of light, warmth, and love."  ~Debasish Mridha

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

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Alexandra Elle Quotes

"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

"We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within." ~Alexandra Elle

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Waleed Aly - blank canvas

"His voicelessness allowed us to take him as a blank canvas onto which we could project whatever values we liked ... Let's be clear about this, he was a black supremacist at that time." ~Waleed Aly on Muhammad Ali (RIP, interred 10 June 2016 in Luiseville, Kentucky USA), ABC RN

Maurice Sendak - book

"There's so much more to a book than just the reading." ~Maurice Sendak

Pierre Loti - silver

From my backyard tonight

22 March 2024

"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

Emma Bull - world

"They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two." ~Emma Bull

Nicolaus Copernicus - circle

"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

James A. Lovell - footprints

"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

Michael Nesmith - thinking

"Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking." ~Michael Nesmith

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Ideal husband

"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband." ~Booth Tarkington

VICTORIA ERICKSON Quotes

“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” ~Victoria Erickson

“Beauty appears where there is an edge. A type of Courage. A fearlessness against the Unknown. Not where there is perfection.” ~Victoria Erickson

"Forest will always hold your secrets, for that's what forests are for. To separate and hide things. To protect, to comfort, to hold, to envelop, to demonstrate, to slow down, to teach. Go to the trees to explore your questions and dreams. Go to the trees to desire and seek. The world will listen as you walk, watch, soften, and breathe." ~Victoria Erickson

"I love getting older. My understanding deepens. I can see what connects. I can weave stories of experience and apply them. I can integrate the the lessons. Things simply become more and more fascinating. Beauty reveals itself in thousands of forms." ~Victoria Erickson

"Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold." ~Victoria Erickson 

"Meaning and purpose don't come in the forms of great accomplishments or undertakings. Rather they reveal themselves on some randomly idle weekday morning when you realise how much you love someone or that you're doing all you can with what you can carry  in the place you are with the time you have with what you care about." ~Victoria Erickson 

"Often times, a person will think they know you by piecing together tiny facts and arranging those pieces into a puzzle that makes sense to them. If we don't know ourselves very well, we'll mistakenly believe them, and drift toward where they tell us to swim, only to drown in our own confusion.

Here's the truth: it's important to take the necessary steps to find out who you are. Because you hold endless depths below the surface of a few facts and pieces and past decisions. You aren't only the ripples others can see. You are made of oceans." ~Victoria Erickson 

"Resilience is silent and deep, like roots. It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't explode outward. It doesn't fall. It doesn't break. It simply always is. And you are." Victoria Erickson 

"Solitude isn't loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly." ~Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder

"Soulmates aren't the ones who make you happiest, no. They're instead the ones who make you feel the most. Burning edges and scars and stars. Old pangs, captivation and beauty. Strain and shadows and worry and yearning. Sweetness and madness and dreamlike surrender. They hurl you into the abyss. They taste like hope." ~Victoria Erickson 

"The greatest gift anyone could give anyone is for the other to feel worthy, adored and more than enough for all that they are. This is a gentle reminder that the people you surround yourself with in every direction should feel both uplifting and safe to your mind and heart. Not confusing, not draining, not controlling, not vague, not calculating, not unreliable, not cold, not dismissive, and not manipulative. Don’t mess around with the energy you take into your body and being, work wise, friendship wise, and relationship wise. Life is too short and delicate for these damaging things. It’s really that simple." ~Victoria Erickson

"To be fully human is to be wild. Wild is the strange pull and whispering wisdom. It’s the gentle nudge and the forceful ache. It is your truth, passed down from the ancients, and the very stream of life in your blood. Wild is the soul where passion and creativity reside, and the quickening of your heart. Wild is what is real, and wild is your home." ~Victoria Erickson 

A LIST OF RANDOM AND UNRELATED THINGS TO REMEMBER:

Time heals.
Mountain winds sound exactly like ocean waves.
You are worth everything now.
Walls can be destroyed.
The sun always rises (and is always beautiful).
Children know the answers.
There is music in everything.
Logic doesn't produce magic.
Somewhere, somebody loves you.

You don't need to choose mediocre when fire exists.
The moon orchestrates our nights and tides.
Trees can grow through rock.
Your heart expands when it's broken.
You should do it now.

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John Phillips - lessons

"We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars." ~John Phillips

Mark Rylance - understanding

"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something." ~Mark Rylance

Dr M Bowen - multigenerational family

"Seeing one’s multigenerational family provides “a sense of continuity, history and identity that is not otherwise possible… [and] can provide one with a different view of the human phenomena than is possible from examining the urgency of the present.” ~Dr M Bowen

Gabriel Byrne - save yourself

"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

Richard H. Baker - magnitude of the universe

"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

Quotes on MEDIA and JOURNALISM

"A journalist worth his salt would avoid becoming the story himself. The story should be that which is written by the journalist and not about the journalist himself." ~Dr. Dante A. Ang, The Manila Times, 3 January 2017

"Biased Journalism is a scourge of democracy. Irresponsible reporting is a menace in the Free World. " ~Benson Bautista

"Discrediting the media is a strategic move. Without the influence of media, we learn to think on our own and avoid being manipulated." ~Unattributed

“Duterte represents a movement in the Philippines to change the way politics works.” ~Stephen Sackur, BBC HARDTalk

"Editors have to be made to realise that if they allow some half-baked story to get into print, they may well be placing their entire organization in jeopardy." ~Kerry Packer

"Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.” ~Marc Jacobs

"Journalism isn’t a career where you pass exams and follow a set path. You need curiosity, courage and confidence." ~Stephen Sackur, (from My Stroll with SS, Huffington Post, Interview with Ebenezar Wikina)

"Journalists who distort the truth to malign, kill and destroy are the worst kind of assassins, murderers and terrorists!" ~Perfecto Yasay

"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up." ~George Carlin

"Mainstream Media, architected by Western Liberals, is a showpiece of how “Press Freedom” could be abused and utilized against anybody for monetary gains. This practice is sickening, distasteful. Long gone are the days that real Journalists were respected in the society." ~@Dutertenomics

"Main stream media ... knows no limits to the betrayal. Fool us once ... shame on them. Fool us twice ... shame on us. Their purpose is not to tell the truth. Their purpose is to make sure you don’t find out the truth ... because that would be bad for business and the agenda. Fear is the weapon of choice for tyranny. They have taken that old acronym of fear a little far here though: False Evidence Appearing Real. Using “evidence” of over run hospitals in Melbourne as the same footage from NYC and Italy from 4 months ago. It’s like they aren’t even trying anymore ... the zombies …… masses are so asleep." ~Anthony Golle, July 20, 2020

"... mass media should be the impartial, fair and honest (i.e., with full integrity) purveyors of information, ...charged with the duty and responsibility to educate the masses." ~Carlos Silverio Bueno

‪"Mass media's tragedy is that it became a willing tool for capitalist interests. It succumbed to greed and abandoned its noble cause of seeking and conveying the truth, as a result of which it even corrupted its journalistic standards and perverted its practices to serve only the vested interests of the few." ~Caloy Bueno, December 13, 2017‬

"Media is one source of those subliminal messages that program our brains and shape our thoughts..... just as music sets our moods. They need to be controlled to an acceptable level as its influence will shape everyone's future..." ~Oscar A. Erasquin

"Peddling fake news does not, in fact, equate to a long-term successful business strategy, reporters for The New York Times are learning the hard way." ~Matthew Boyle, Breitbart, FB shared, 27 June 2017

"... people of every political persuasion, ponder on the role of the half-blind international press that are stoking the flames of conflict between and among Filipinos today. Do they know more about the Philippines than the Filipinos?" ~Bryan Ng Co

"Press credibility is getting lower and lower. In fact it’s just about at rock bottom… it’s degenerated into a beat-up. The beat-up is what it’s all about. Any story they get, they’re looking to embellish so they can boast how they stuck it to someone." ~Kerry Packer

"Responsible journalism' means complying with the law." ~National Press Club (NPC), 16 January 2018

"Social media has radically changed the way mass communication is now played, especially in the formation of opinion and points of view. It is a game changer, and it has created a seismic shift in how people now digest and process the news and information. Most importantly it has actually empowered the ordinary citizen himself into becoming an instant newsmaker, or a journalist in the broadest sense. As with what we have been discussing with my fellow socmed bloggers, if Duterte were elected prior to the advent of Facebook and Twitter, he would have probably met the same fate as Muammar Gadaffi and Saddam Hussein, or Manuel Noriega." ~Mark Lopez, July 25, 2017 (EXCLUSIVE: Concerned Filipino Mark Lopez on his open letter to US Congress, in an interview with Adam Garrie, The DURAN)

"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is un-readable and literature is not read." ~Oscar Wilde

"The mainstream media now sees itself as internal state security." ~Thomas Wictor, Twitter , 6 July 2017

"The media distorts the fact. What they don’t have is public trust!" ~Edwin Jamora

"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." ~Malcolm X

"The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is coloured by this reality." ~Edward Jay Epstein

‪"This is the way the media works nowadays .. the media knows their target audience, the emotive junkies .. feed them a click-bait headline, an emotive pic captured just at the right time, add comments from minority groups, flavour it with their own special homemade sauce and hey presto they’ve got you hook line sinker. Works all the time.…The media no longer reports news .. rather it creates news by sensationalising it in any way to sell newspapers .. they use social media to get a reaction from as many as possible. Once one person clicks on an article it’s mayhem bringing the worst possible out of normally intelligent people. People comment in ways they would not normally do, often breaking friendships and often participating in just plain bullying. …‬
‪The media seems shows little concern ... their main motive is to sell newspapers and increase advertising revenue." ~‬Robert Azzopardi ,‪January 10, 2020 on Canberra Time's "‬Why the bloody hell would you think Scott Morrison is a good tourism ambassador? Tourism Australia should have known its now-pulled Matesong campaign was going to be out of touch, writes Jenna Price.

"Unfortunately, many Australian’s want to pull down anyone who achieves. And journalists are no exception. They have become a law unto themselves." ~Kerry Packer

"What I think politicians should be doing, if they had any guts, is to introduce a libel system which is punitive. If a journalist has the evidence to prove his allegations, then by all means, let them be printed. But if they’re wrong, then it should be costing their organizations millions, not tens or hundreds of thousands." ~Kerry Packer

"When Chicago Daily Tribune got it wrong in the 1948 election. President Truman, holding the infamous issue telling the press, "That ain't the way I heard it!" ~U.S. Embassy Canberra, FB (hashtag Election Watch)

"When journalists use their power to dictate WHAT YOU WILL SAY, that means the press is now a secret police."~Thomas Wictor, Twitter, 6 July 2017

"Why do we solicit the opinions and half-baked analyses of foreign observers when they aren't even stakeholders in this political problem? .....If and when the dust of this political war settles, these international media outfits can just as easily offer a half-meant apology and say, "We thought Duterte was going to be a dictator as your VP had said. So, we helped you remove him. It turns out that he wasn't but he certainly had all the capacity to be a dictator.".....And we, the Filipinos, will be left to pick up the pieces of a broken republic." ~Bryan Ng Co

"Who believes in journalists these days anyway? Journalists at politiko pare pareho lang magaling mag imbento ng kwento para mapaniwala ng tao!" ~Butch M. Natividad , November 30, 2016

“Writers make a living with words, yes. But so do lawyers.” ~Atty. Trixie Angeles

"Yellow media is motivated by enviousness. Their role is to distort,  twist and bend the truth. Only the less informed, ill-informed and the un-informed will believe them." ~LCD, April 15, 2020, Media Against Sadhguru

"You are a broadcasting company, not a political kingmaker, either you play ball or you play fair. ABS-CBN should NOT get a new franchise to broadcast so it can be stopped from meddling in politics. It's time the people choose their leader and not those chosen by ABS-CBN." ~Rep. Rodante Marcoleta, Philippines House of Congress (Maiden Speech), May 28, 2020

"You are supposed to be the vanguards of responsible, fair, impartial and truthful journalism!" ~Uriel Emmanuel Soriano, An Open Letter to ABS-CBN, April 24, 2016


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“A real journalist is one who looks out the window to check whether it was raining or not” ~Aveen Acuna-Gulo

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"How old were you when you
found out that "NEWSPAPER" means
North, East, West, South,
Past, And, Present, Event, Report?"
~Philippinature

"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believed anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific." ~Donald Trump, People Magazine, 1998

"If you're a yellow propagandist you might think Duterte supporters are 'anti-democratic', but in REALITY, Duterte supporters are the most real, down to earth, people in the world. It's about wanting a better, cleaner, happier, safer and more stable life, all while living in a dignified way under the flag of a proud nation. THIS is what Duterte represents to millions. It is a message for the people, because all people have access to it. it excludes no one and welcomes anyone with a positive attitude. THIS it the REAL Duterte revolution!" ~Adam Garrie, February 24, 2018

"Terrorism, criminality, drug syndicates, narco-politics, corruptions are real facts but the media was playing it and manipulate it to fabricate news or create a different viewpoint about the situation in the Philippines." ~Amir Assadollahi, Canadian Political Analyst

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in ever lasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation." ~HERBERT SPENCER

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)

"Whatever he said in the media just to pamper his ego is just for show.. the truth is in the middle of the night when he is alone..he' s cursing himself in disgust. Its during those lone moments that we realize what or who we really are." ~Lito Recio on Trillanes re:BBC HardTalk, 28 June 2017

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Uriel Emmanuel Soriano - on media

"You are supposed to be the vanguards of responsible, fair, impartial and truthful journalism!" ~Uriel Emmanuel Soriano, An Open Letter to ABS-CBN, April 24, 2016

Irene Santiago - kind of heart

"Just work on yourself. We can work on your mouth. But your heart is where it is. We waited for that kind of heart for a long time. Just be yourself and we’re all here to help you.” ~Irene Santiago, Leading Feminist, on President-elect RR Duterte, FB, June 2016

Louis Arevalos - music

"Your music has a hypnotic quality that mirrors a great Age of the past." ~Louis Arevalos on Deniz Inan musical compositions dated 21 February 2016

Annette Hedworth - music

"... music is the most wonderful vehicle for journeys deep into the soul." ~Annette Hedworth on Deniz Inan "Kayo’s Journey”dated November 29, 2015

Quotes on MOON and SUN

"The moon is very rugged." ~Alan Bean

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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

"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!" ~Sitting Bull

"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 born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun." ~Geronimo

‪"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

"She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water." ~Katie Daisy 

"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 reigning over their world, glowing its full splendour to all those who willing to look up." ~Irina Serban

"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 clouds fly, the moon travels. When the boat sails, the shore moves." ~The Buddha

"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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RELATED QUOTES

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

"How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?" ~Omar Khayyam

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

"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul." ~Thomas Mann

“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)

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life." ~Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

"My Moonlight is just a mass of blooms at present. The bees and birds love them." ~Denise Adames 

“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

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"She loves moonlight and rainstorms and so many other things that have soul." ~JM Storm

"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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Kristalee Berry - Love

"Love is like a gentle breeze that cascades through your entire being, filling every fiber with emotion so deep your heart grows wings."~Kristalee Berry

Quotes on VIRTUES

"A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

“Aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide.“ ~Milo Yiannopoulos

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." ~Mother Teresa

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently." ~
Maya Angelou

"Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?~ Seneca

"Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate." ~Harry Browne

"Gratitude is our natural response to God's grace. Nothing so takes the heart out of a person as ingratitude. Gratitude is not only the greatest virtues, but the parent of all the others." ~CICERO

"He who rules by virtue is like the Pole Star. It maintains its place, and the multitude of stars pay homage." ~Confucius

"Honesty is making your words conform to reality. Integrity is making reality conform to your words. Honor your commitment, even when it is difficult, expensive, or inconvenient. Know that the cost of not keeping your word is even more expensive. Always remember to under promise but over deliver." ~Anon

"Honesty is more than not LYING. It is TRUTH telling, truth SPEAKING, TRUTH LIVING, and TRUTH LOVING." ~James E. Faust

"Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others – qualities which are within easy reach of every soul – are the foundation of one’s spiritual life." ~Nelson Mandela from a letter to Winnie Mandela, written on Robben Island, South Africa, 1 February 1975, LTL‬

"Humility has many forms and ways which we are taught to learn our lessons from experience." ~Leah C. Dancel, August 19, 2018

"Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of sin and evil." ~Andrew Murray

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." ~Marcus Porcius Cato

"If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving." ~Robert Frost

“If you govern with the power of your virtue, you will be like the North Star. It just stays in its place while all the other stars position themselves around it.” ~Confucius

"In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. 
In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.
In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path.
In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue." ~Paulo Coelho

"Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles." ~Awareness Act dot com

"It is a precious virtue to try to make others happy and to forget their worries." ~Nelson Mandela from a letter to Zindzi Mandela, written on Robben Island, 1 March 1981, LTL‬ ‪

“Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you." ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days." ~Henri Alain

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ~Thomas Paine on Virtue

"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians." ~Chinese Proverb

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.” ~Francis Bacon

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... but with what? With wine, with poetry,  or with virtue, as you chose. But be drunk." ~Charles Baudelaire,  French Poet 1855

"Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe." ~Rumi

“Pleasure the servant,
Virtue looking on.”
~Ben Jonson

"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love." ~Khalil Gibran

“The dew of compassion is a tear.” ~Lord Byron

"The practice of virtue, the worship of God and Paropakara to others – these three form the very essence of a truly noble life. Never neglect them. Ever practise them. This is real earning. He, who has this earning, accumulates the greatest wealth even though his earthly income may be modest. Blessed Self! Accumulate this wealth by living a Divine Life in the midst of your ordinary secular life. Have a rich inner life. Joy and peace will come to you." ~Sri Swami Chidananda

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate." ~Robert Frost

"Understanding is knowing what to do;
Wisdom is knowing what to do next;
Virtue is actually doing it."
~T Gulberd

"Virtue can only flourish among equals." ~Mary Wollstonecraft

"Virtue is insufficient temptation." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

"Without courage, all other virtues are meaningless." ~Jose Alejandrino

'Women's virtue is man's greatest invention." ~Cornelia Otis Skinner

RELATED QUOTES

"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." ~Samuel Johnson

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” ~Janet Fitch

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." ~Mark Twain

"Self respect, integrity and self worth fundamentally serve as our standard in our outlook on life." ~Yesu Ben

"Sincerity provides strength." ~Shellharbour Public School Motto

"The great charm of all power is modesty." ~Anon

"The river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." ~Jim Watkins

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." ~Leo Tolstoy

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.” ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"Victory is changing the hearts of your opponents by gentleness and kindness." -An Nasir Salahuddin, Al-Ayyubi (1137-1193)

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” ~Charlie Chaplin   

"When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion." ~Marshall Rosenberg

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