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47 Quotes When You're Looking At The Stars, Wondering Who You Are & What It All Means

"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments." - Neil Gaiman
Marisa Donnelly
September 23, 2016
“If you feel too much, there’s still a place for you here. If you feel too much, don’t go. It this world is too painful, stop and rest. It’s okay to stop and rest. If you need a break, it’s okay to say you need a break.This life –it’s not a contest, not a race, not a performance, not a thing that you win. It’s okay to slow down. You are here for more than grades, more than a job, more than a promotion, more than keeping up, more than getting by.This life is not about status or opinion or appearance. You don’t have to fake it. You do not have to fake it. Other people feel this way too. If your heart is broken, it’s okay to say your heart is broken. If you feel stuck, it’s okay to say you feel stuck. If you can’t let go, it’s okay to say you can’t let go.You are not alone in these places. Other people feel how you feel. You are more than just your pain. You are more than wounds, more than drugs, more than death and silence.There is still some time to be surprised. There is still some time to ask for help. There is still some time to start again. There is still some time for love to find you. It’s not too late. You’re not alone. It’s okay –whatever you need and however long it takes- its okay. It’s okay. If you feel too much, there’s still a place for you here. If you feel too much, don’t go. There is still some time.”
— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Tagged: Hope, Self Worth, Starting Over, purpose
“I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind.”
— Matthew Gray Gubler, Criminal Minds
Tagged: Insanity, Mind, Mental Health, Self-awareness
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Tagged: Love, purpose, human
“Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the 'mystery of the universe' only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all.”
— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
Tagged: Paradox, Universe, Knowing Nothing, You Know Nothing
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
— Paulo Coelho, Searching For Meaning
Tagged: Meaning, Life, purpose, Freedom, Choices
“Perhaps it is not necessary to franticly complete a to-do list. Perhaps it is not necessary to overly focus on the future or even focus on the future at all. Perhaps it’s more important to live the moments, to look for the meaning in the simple day-to-day moments.”
— Monique Rainford-Bourne, What A Dying Friend Taught Me About Living (And It’s Not About Making A Bucket List)
Tagged: Life, Living In The Moment, Living In The Present, Meaning, Happiness, purpose, Thought Catalog
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life, Journey, purpose, Faith, Hope, Dreams
“And I feel my body fully, vessel of desire, 
my stomach a pond of want and warmth, 
utterly human, divine and awake. And I can hear 
each bird's separate song, the chirt and scree, 
the sip, sip, sip, the dwindle and uplift yearning, 
the soup's on, soup's on, let up, let it go 
of each individual voice, and I know I am here, 
in this widening light, as we all are, with them, 
even the most damaged among us or lonely 
or nearly dead, and that for each of us there is 
some small sound like an unseen bird 
ora red bike grinding along the gravel path 
that could wake us, and take us home.”
— Dorianne Laux, "Morning Song," in Facts About The Moon
Tagged: Being a woman, humanity, Experiencing Life, Existing In Nature, What It Means To Be Human, Existence, Finding Yourself, Finding Home
“Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure and spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Solitude, Boredom, Silence, Tiredness, Adventure, Opposites, Death, Meaning
“Whenever you feel hopeless, all you need to do is go outside and realize that you have been molded into human form for some reason.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: hopeless, Human Life, Being human, purpose
“We are all just waiting for another universe to collide with ours, to change what we can’t ourselves. To fill us, to make us whole. It’s interesting how afterwards, we realize that the storm returns to calm, but the stars are always changed and we don’t choose whose collisions change us. ”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Waiting For The One, Universe, Align With Us
“My heartbeat and breaths all sound too loud, as if I, such an overall insignificant specimen in these muted hours, am occupying too large of a space; too dense and volatile of an existence to be permitted a moment of contented peace.”
— Mia Ingallina, Not Being Alone Is A Beautiful Feeling
Tagged: Feeling Alone, Looking At The Stars, Losing Yourself In The Moment, Longing For Love, Wishing For Love, Loneliness
“i recommend never allowing yourself to become fully aware of the realities of your existence”
— Oscar Bruno d'Artois, Teen Surf Goth
Tagged: Awareness, Existence
“Everything that God created has a purpose. The sun has a purpose. The clouds have a purpose. Rain has a purpose. Trees have a purpose. Animals have a purpose; even the smallest insects, and fish in the sea have a purpose.”
— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Tagged: purpose, God, Theology, Animals, Divine Purpose
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.”
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Tagged: self, humanity, Life, Understanding, Meaning
“There will come a day when all that seems permanent now will be a distant memory. Time is a very powerful thing and change is a unavoidable concept, but you will always be who you are, even if it is different to who you were way back then. Fighting change will not stop it happening, let your mind rest and go with where the universe guides you.”
— Amy Kennedy, Beautiful Souls
Tagged: Permanent, Universe, Guidance, Memories, Writing and Expression
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: Anne Frank, Alone, Lonely, Love, God
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Tagged: humanity, Universe
“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Stars, Universe, Time
“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Universe, Reality, Change, Creation, Perception
“Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.”
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Tagged: Having A Voice, Life's Purpose, purpose, Meaning Of Life, Cause
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
— Vladimir Nabokov,
Tagged: first lines of books, Abyss, Meaning Of Life
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget: to love.”
— Ioana Cristina Casapu, Ioana Cristina Casapu
Tagged: Writing, Love, Loneliness, Fear, Life, Society, Writers, Philosophy, Psychology, How To Think, Awareness, Living Skills
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying
Tagged: Silence, Psychologists, purpose, Positivity
“Everything that happens before death is what counts.”
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tagged: Death, Life, Meaning
“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it well be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Universe, Life, live life
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Tagged: best instagram caption, Best Selfie Captions for Instagram, Best Captions of Instagram, shakespeare, Wisdom, inspiring instagram caption, self, Self-Love, Self-awareness, said to exes
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.”
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Tagged: self, Self-awareness, Being, creature, Body, Reality, Dream, Imagination, Dreams, Spiritual, physical
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!”
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Tagged: self, Self-awareness, Being, creature, Body, Reality, Dream, Imagination, Dreams, Spiritual, physical, Existence, God
“Each and every one of us is on this earth for a reason. No two people are alike. We are all perfectly made and created to do what we’re meant to do in this world. You are precious, you are unique, and you are special, so don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Loving Yourself, You Are Special, purpose