Quotes About Earth

And the truth was that in life on earth there was no such thing as happiness without pain, victory without defeat. There were joy and enchantment and beauty to be garnered on the path, but at all times, too, there were burdens to be borne.

Communists are also, curiously, utopians—secular utopians. They sought a heaven on earth—for them, an earth without religion. They did so without realizing that utopia is not only elusive but such a literal self-contradiction that it does not exist. The Greek roots of the word are ou topos, or "no place." In other words, there is no utopia, at least not in this world and realm. And yet, communists would pursue this no place with religious-like zeal.

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on a hillside," Joyce writes in Ulysses. "For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

I was an exotic bird traversing an earth ravaged by humanity's poverty of spirit. I

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

God uses silence to teach us to use words responsibly. He uses tiredness so that we can understand the value of waking up. He uses illness to underline the blessing of good health. God uses fire to teach us about water. He uses earth to explain the value of air. He uses death to show us the importance of life.

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul...

Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will,because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's you mission on earth.

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Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve. 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much! (Buck, 57)

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.

And it is quite true that she, with the lambs, do provide me with a comfort I cannot fathom. It is a small comfort, but deep, a mother tie to this earth. I own something more, something alive. I shall have to attach myself by all these small cords lest I be rootless, now that the tap root is gone.

Mi señor, ¿has visto el amanecer esta mañana? Se hubiera dicho que la tierra saltaba al encuentro del sol. Al principio, todo era oscuridad; luego surgió la luz como una nota musical. Mi señor, yo soy tu pobre tierra, que espera.

and when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.

How can school help you with the land? he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. Learning clears the mind, he said, and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth. Do you know how to read? Il-han asked. The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is.

It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and realized that things were vaster than any mind could conceive and you just couldn't handle it, so you started worrying about what you were going to have for lunch. There you are in outer space with this sense of the world being so vast, and then you bring it all down into this very tiny world of worrying about what's for lunch... We do this all the time.