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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
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart, Searching For Home, Searching For Answers, Understanding Life
“Everything I've ever been through has brought me here because this is where I need to be. Every bump in the road, every chance relationship, every confusing moment. It's been so purposeful. So perfect. All of it.
I have no regrets. No complaints. Thank you, life. For absolutely everything.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: purpose, thankful, Relationships, Blessed
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Tagged: Life, Meaning, Universe
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
— Stephen Hawking, From Big Bang to Big Mystery
Tagged: Work, Meaning, Love, Luck
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
— Stephen Hawking, Nirvana in the Garden of Eden: The Quantum Leap and Evolution of 2012
Tagged: monkeys, humans, Universe
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”
— Stephen Hawking, Naturalopy Precept 15: Success
Tagged: Universe, Perfection, Imperfection
“We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.”
— Stephen Hawking, What Would You Like To Do?
Tagged: Existence, Universe, Time
“I think I’m a mixture of simplicity and complexes, but I’m beginning to understand myself now.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1956
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Simplicity, complex, self awareness, empowerment, Understanding
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Heaven, Death, Understanding Life, Understanding Death, The Universe, Universe, After Death
“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges: A Novel
Tagged: Meaning Of Life, Life Quotes, Elie Wiesel Quotes
“When we are alone, we learn how to be alone. The most productive moments of mending ourselves is done in the company of our own existence.”
— Leena Sanders, Here’s Why We Must Be Single Before Jumping Into A Serious Relationship
Tagged: Single, Being Single, Solo, Being On Your Own, Single Life
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Expectations
“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more — except his God.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Fear, Faith, God
“I think there are far more miracles in our lives than we may ever realize. Like flickers of light among the darkness, they remind us that God is there and that He cares.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: God, Miracles, Hope, God Cares
“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Meaning Of Life
“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”
— Ernest Cline, Ready Player One: A Novel
Tagged: Stars, Sun, Universe, Perspective
“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.”
— Christopher Poindexter, via Tumblr
Tagged: Alone, Under The Stars, 3am Thoughts, Understanding Your Self, Searching For Answers