Earth
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special', you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you — and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.
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