c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I love you to the moon and back is a nice thing to say as it means you love someone a hell of a lot but it is not enough to express what I feel for you. The moon is actually visible and the distance to the moon and back is caculatable so in a way limited. So what about I love you to beyond the universe and back instead. It just comes closer to what I feel for you than "to the moon and back".
— Iris van de Voort
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.
— Iain M. Banks
The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.
— Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, when a formless universe existed in a state of chaotic un-creation, lacking awareness even of itself.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
All, I find is Google. ‪#‎iampm‬
— Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)
Thank you, NASA, for keeping watch and realizing that our universe will never be anything but light-years new. I want to understand that, and I am so comforted by the fact that I can't. It only proves that some things won't allow themselves to be understood. They aren't for us to know and there's rapture in that, don't you think? Are you happy there, with your eyes glued to the heavens? You know so much, like why the ocean doesn't fall out of the sky, and that there is no upside down. There is no up.
— Mary-Louise Parker, Dear Mr. You
The space between "Girl" and "Friend" is occupied by an infinite universe called ‪#‎FriendZone‬.It's a one way road. :P
— Crestless Wave
What was the appeal? Particularly from the very young? A need to belong? some twisted tribal urge? how easy it is for the power-hungry to seduce those who want answers. But were they that different from myself? We all want answers, we all want the "truth"--confirmation that the universe is a good place and that we're protected from harm. We all want to believe there is an order.
— Connie di Marco, The Madness of Mercury
I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.
— Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
...if you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
— Seneca
The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third but the question Where shall we have lunch?
— Douglas Adams
What place, then, for a creator?
— Stephen Hawking
Everyone knows that physicists are concerned with the laws of the universe and have the audacity sometimes to think they have discovered the choices God made when He created the universe in thus and such a pattern. Mathematicians are even more audacious. What they feel they discover are the laws that God Himself could not avoid having to follow.
— David Mumford
Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design.
— Garon Whited, Nightlord Orb
Being with her is my survival
—  loving her is effortless. She is the shining center of my universe and her love is the moon that pulls the tide of my heart.
The universe was alive with staccato radio chatter and art and curiosity and wonder and change.
— Exurb1a
When we don't interact people with sincerity in our hearts they receive mixed vibrations from us. These vibrations become source of disharmony and chaos for the people and the universe.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
One positive person affects the whole universe. If you improve yourself as a human being then you will contribute for the betterment of the whole planet.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren't we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your universe, and if we die, part of your universe dies with us.
— Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods
Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!
— Jack Kerouac
And now that this body is gone and has been returned to the Earth, I assure everyone that psychic energy doesn’t die, it is recycled throughout the universe and will out live anything that we do as living beings. Flesh will decay, ideas won’t as long as you believe in them and someone believes in you.
— A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?
— David  Walton, Superposition
If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing.
— Will Adolphy
I want him to touch me again. I want to feel his hands, as soft as clouds. But I’m afraid if he touches me, all seven billion billion billion atoms that make up my body will blow apart and scatter across the universe.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Something primal was awake within her, a violent will to live as old as the universe itself.
— Lucas Mangum, Dark of Night - Flesh and Fire
It’s the ability to love anyone and anything that’s the most powerful force in the universe.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
You’re probably wondering: why were Medusa’s kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa’s body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I’m just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you’re in the wrong universe
— Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.
— Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, in some sense it makes us more precious. The meaning in our lives is provided by us; we provide our own meaning.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.
— Isaac Asimov
Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
Donate to and help the Universe and you help yourself. Teach the Universe and you enlighten yourself.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
Humanity is destined to explore, settle, and expand outward into the universe.
— Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the Moon
The glow lasted through the night, beyond the bar's closing, when there were no cabs on the street. And so Mathilde and Lotto decided to walk home, her arm in his, chatting about nothing, about everything, the unpleasant, hot breath of the subway belching up from the grates. 'Chthonic', he said, booze letting loose the pretension at his core, which she still found sweet, an allowance from the glory. It was so late, there were few other people out, and it felt, just for this moment, that they had the city to themselves.She thought of all the life just underfoot, the teem of it that they were passing over, unknowing. She said, 'Did you know that the total weight of all the ants on Earth is the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth.' She, who drank to excess, was a little bit drunk, it was true, there was so much relief in the evening.When the curtains closed against the backdrop, an enormous bolder blocking their future had rolled away.'They'll still be here when we're gone,' he said. He was drinking from a flask. By the time they were home, he'd be sozzeled. 'The ants and the jellyfish and the cockroaches, they will be the kings of the Earth.'...'They deserve this place more than we do,' she said. 'We've been reckless with our gifts.' He smiled and looked up. There were no stars, there was too much smog for them.'Did you know,' he said, 'they just found out just a while ago that there are billions of worlds that can support life in our galaxy alone.'...She felt a sting behind here eyes, but couldn't say why this thought touched her.He saw clear through and understood. He knew her. The things he didn't know about her would sink an ocean liner. He knew her.'We're lonely down here,' he said, 'it's true, but we're not alone.'In the hazy space after he died, when she lived in a sort of timeless underground grief, she saw on the internet a video about what would happen to our galaxy in billions of years. We are in an immensely slow tango with the Andromeda galaxy, both galaxies shaped like spirals with outstretched arms, and we are moving toward each other like spinning bodies. The galaxies will gain speed as they draw near, casting off blue sparks, new stars until they spin past each other, and then the long arms of both galaxies will reach longingly out and grasp hands at the last moment and they will come spinning back in the opposite direction, their legs entwined, never hitting, until the second swirl becomes a clutch, a dip, a kiss, and then at the very center of things, when they are at their closest, there will open a supermassive black hole.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
That a universe exists within every human being. That to the blood cells and organs in your body, you are god. That this universe is only one individual among infinite others.
— Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan
In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
I like the sky. It’s rational to me in a way that life isn’t. Looking at it doesn’t suck the way you might think it would, given all the dying-girl-stares-at-heaven possibilities. I don’t think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.
— Nick Bostrom
Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe?
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.
— Clifford A. Pickover, The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
Each petal in the universe whispers in our ears that an unknown power is at work. If we align ourselves with this divine energy, offer our work to Him and move on in life, we will never have any worries and anxieties in our life.
— Sanchita Pandey, Voyage to Happiness!
Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
Be mindful of your self-talk. It is a conversation with the universe. You are a being, full of infinite possibilities! Focus your mind with positivity and you will have dictated the direction of your journey, your soul and your being, cascading in infinite abundance.
— Angie karan
There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back—all their lives.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?
— Shaun David Hutchinson
Ian: I don't believe in luck. I do believe we've known each other since forever, though.Sofi: Really?Ian: Yeah. You know how? When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. So my atoms have known your atoms and they've always known your atoms. My atoms have always loved your atoms.
— I Origin
The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are.
— Ian Strang
People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe.
— Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency
If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.
— J.W. Dunne, An Experiment with Time
People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
I believe in life. I believe it to be something that is eternal, powerful and spread throughout the universe -- something like gravity. There are many such energies. Once we are able to detect life it will boggle our minds for centuries to come. The shear magnitude will rapture many, and destroy others, but we're not there yet. We can say something is alive, or dead, but not if life is there or not. Perhaps because it is too quiet, maybe because it is so loud we can hear nothing else, but mainly -- I believe -- because we haven't bothered to listen yet. -- from the Black Dog
— Glenn Hefley
There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.
— Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters
We are the universe seeking truth.
— Jay Woodman
I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself.
— Adrián Lamo
In the long run, you see, none of that matters.I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a place where you exercise any power.In the long run, we are all three-dimensional side-effects of a two-dimensional universe existing in a multidimensional stack.
— Warren Ellis
A man stroking a dog’s head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The Universe is made of our thoughts.Our thoughts are infinite.
— Lorin Morgan-Richards
With an attitude of gratitude, you can't go wrong. You are already putting it out there into the universe that you are ready to receive more. This is the universal truth. Be thankful for what you have. Your life is already abundant.
— Karen A. Baquiran
I thought I had nothing to be grateful for today, but then the universe became quiet a moment so I could hear my heart beat to the rhythm of my life.
— Karen A. Baquiran
A moment in time is the strangest and most powerful object in the known universe.
— Khalid Masood
A random act of violence," his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.
— Thomas Pierce, Hall of Small Mammals: Stories
The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success.
— Debasish Mridha
When water is being filled in a pot, the sound we hear is a function of the pot, not of the water. Same water makes different sounds in different pots. Each of us, described in Sanskrit as Ghata, meaning pot, responds in a unique way to the stimuli from the surrounding environment. Do not be surprised when the response of another appears entirely different from yours. The pot has created the illusion of a wall, of mine and other. Once you become aware of that illusion, otherness melts and the universe becomes a unified verse again, with apparently diverse responses becoming part of the same symphony.
— R. N. Prasher
Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.
— John Mark Green
Her kiss dissolves the universe. In that moment, I am unmade and then reborn.
— John Mark Green
Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.
— Ilona Andrews, Sweep in Peace
We saw the same sunset.
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
…our world did not fall because we did not believe in fairness… our world fell because it could no longer support the enormous weight we had put upon it, in the name of fairness.
— Leot Felton
Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe.
— Debasish Mridha
When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?
— Matthew S. Williams
It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.
— Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
Trapped on a school bus for an hour each morning and each evening, she devoured book after book. She explored a hundred worlds, indifferent to her peers and the passing of the universe.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
The universe doesn't command that we love. That would be forcing it. But the Universe does have a heart and when it looks from within it wants it's components to the do the same with unconditional love. Through it's own inner guidance and thus ours.
— Matthew Donnelly
Many of the stars in the universe are thousands of times bigger than the earth. God focuses on the earth, a little speck of dust in the galaxy, and even loves each of us intensely as if each of us are the only person who exists.
— Paul Silway
I am glad we have not yet been able to reach the stars or inhabitable planets that dance about them. For they would in all probability be owned and divided by corporations and framed by industrial interests. Better they rest in distant tranquility, apart from our manufactured chaos.Let generations to come that learn to embrace one another, with their scientists, artists and poets, be the ones that immerse in that abundance and future. For now it is best it remains out of humanity's childlike hands in that big jar, light years away, marked "cookies." There for that coming time when the only thing we need feed off of, is the endless discovery and beauty.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
The moment you begin your journey, the whole universe begins to enjoy your song.
— Debasish Mridha
Scientists say that somewhere in the universe, every event under the sun repeats itself an infinite number of times in every possible variation.
— Romina Russell, Zodiac
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
— Carl Sagan
To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.
— Vironika Tugaleva
You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light and my dark, settled into my existence and there you will be and glow in the matter of my heart, long after light is only a memory. You have changed things for always.
— Jennifer DeLucy
We are all recipients of God's full and perfect creation...everyone and everything in the universe are connected according to the Master's divine creative plan and purpose. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole creation. All thoughts, words, emotions, prayers, blessings, good deeds, evil deeds and actions are heard and experienced by the entire human creation...all mankind.
— Pazaria Smith, Sacrifice of Love, Jesus Christ and the Cross
I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.
— Dominic Smith, The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and unreal, now and yet to come, a code or sign, a corresponding figure within the Library. It seeks to render totality visible, to effect a total visibility and visuality. The Library of Babel is a view of the universe inside and out, an X-ray of the universe and universal X-ray, seen from within and without. It is a representation of everywhere: a perfect duplication of the universe. And of you: universal. An endless and eternal cinema, an imaginary archive that extends into the universe until it is indistinguishable from it, until you are indistinguishable from the universe.
— Akira Mizuta Lippit, Atomic Light
Know, O man you are a particle of the supreme feminine being sucked to an obscure vacuum - of a bliss but that we can only name - universe!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
Everything turns, rotates, spins, circles, loops, pulsates, resonates, and repeats.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
There is no good or evil. We classify things into good and evil because we are currently unable to solve the two problems of the world: death and dearth. If there ever comes a time when we can solve these problems, we won't be required to do this anymore.
— Andreas Laurencius, Genesis
Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, but the storm occluded the sky, denying us the stars. At the moment, I needed to see a firmament of stars, needed to gaze past the moon and through the constellations, needed to see what can't be seen--infinity.
— Dean Koontz, Innocence
Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I believe it is true that humility is the only just response in a confrontation with the universe, but not a humility that prevents us from seeking the nature of the universe we are admiring. If we seek that nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception. If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It or whatever the appropriate pronoun is, prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its intricacy? I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship.
— Carl Sagan
Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
— Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particular theological conclusion that comes out of an exercise such as the one we have just gone through. What is more, when we understand something of the astronomical dynamics, the evolution of worlds, we recognize that worlds are born and worlds die, they have lifetimes just as humans do, and therefore that there is a great deal of suffering and death in the cosmos if there is a great deal of life.
— Carl Sagan
Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want the specific direction we have chosen to be the correct one, if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green!
— Manasa Rao
HARDWARE ....................SOFTWARECar...................................PetrolTube-light, fan....................ElectricityBook.................................StoryTape-recorder..................Music recordedTV.....................................Serials, TV programmes etcMobile...............................Symbian, Lollipop, Kitkat etcComputer.........................MS DOS, Linux, Windows etcBrain................................MindSociety.............................GovernanceUniverse..........................GOD!!So GOD is the Ultimate software, THAT runs the entire Universe from the spinning of an electron to the explosion of stars and formation of galaxies!!
— Ankala V Subbarao
Education is the light which lets us see the universe in a better way. It often lets us understand her incredible beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
...although the universe itself isn't a conscious entity, it possesses the raw materials that, when properly set into motion, create consciousness. It has the ability to create intelligent life, which is capable of understanding the universe... It can know itself indirectly
— Arthur Byron Cover
The universe is in fact a multiverse.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.
— Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
Dust is the parent of a star!
— Munia Khan
The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you.
— L.J. Vanier
I am the universe where I let flowers bloom with the glow of love.
— Debasish Mridha
1337% of Pi ≈ 42
— Mario J. Lucero
Lucid Dreaming is the ability of a brain to download the information of a possible futuristic state of an event from a Parallel Universe.
— Vishwanath S J
You are that angel of paradise.You are that flower of heaven.This universe was longing for you,with endless love for infinite time.
— Debasish Mridha
You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~
— Lee Strobel
There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there.
— Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Take the expansion rate of the universe, which is fine-tuned to one part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion. That is, if it were changed by one part in either direction--a little faster, a little slower--we could not have a universe that would be capable of supporting life. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~
— Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
— L.J. Vanier
There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
— Sunday Adelaja
When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
— Albert Einstein
The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.And then we see the end.Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.Just light.And then it’s gone.And then he’s gone.
— Beth Revis, Shades of Earth
FAITH IS THE EMPEROR OF DREAMSA great emperor is born from one tiny sperm.A large eagle grows from one small egg.A giant tree grows from one tiny seedling.For the newborn and wise,Everything begins small.However, it is faith that buildsthe staircase to your dreams.Always have faith in yourselfand the universe,For one will not get you anywherewithout the other.Both must be equally strong to reach your desires,For they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.Not a single bird makes its first leap From a tree without faith.And not a single animal in the junglestarts each day without faith.Faith is the flame that eliminates fear,And faith is the true emperorof dreams.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
— David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.A million suns.Centuries away is Sol. Circling around it is Sol-Earth, the planet Amy came from. And one of these other stars is the Centauri binary system, where the new planet spins, waiting for us.And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home.But all of them are out of reach.
— Beth Revis, A Million Suns
I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.
— Beth Revis, Shades of Earth
That—this—is Orion’s secret. It’s not that the ship isn’t working, that we’re never going to make it.It’s that the ship has already arrived.We’re already here! There—there—is the planet that will be our home!It floats, so bright that it hurts my eyes. Giant green landmasses spread out across blue water, with swirls and wisps of clouds twirling over top. At the edge of the planet, where it turns away from the suns and starts to darken, I can see bright flashes of light—bursts of whiteness in the darkness—and I think: Is that lightning? In the center, where the light of the suns makes the planet seem to glow from within, I can see, very distinctly, a continent. A continent. On one edge, it’s cracked and broken like an egg, dark lines snaking deep into the landmass. Rivers. Lots of them. Maybe something too big to be rivers if I can see it from here. Fingers of land stretch out into the sea, and dots of islands are just out of their grasp. That area will be cool all the time, I think. Boats can go along the rivers, up and down. We can swim in the water.Because already, I can see myself living there. Being there.On a planet that looks up at a million suns every night, and at two every day.I want to scream, shout with joy. But the air is so thin now.Too thin.I’ve spent too long looking at Orion’s secret.The boop . . . boop . . . boop . . . fades away. There’s nothing to warn about now.Because there’s no air left.My sight is rimmed with black. My head pulses with my heartbeat, which sounds as loud to me as the alarm once did. I turn from the planet—my planet—and start pulling, hand over hand, against the tether, toward the hatch. The ship bobs in and out of my vision as my whole body jerks. I’m panicked now and fighting to stay awake. I try to suck in air, but there’s nothing there to suck. I’m drowning in nothing.
— Beth Revis, A Million Suns
To believe in coincidences, to believe in fate— it ties into the spiritual realm, to the idea that there is something universal out there, something looking out for you, watching over you, guiding you.
— Emma Mildon, The Soul Searcher's Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World
Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
You are not in the universe
—  the universe is hiding inside you and always looking out for you.
In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: "Multiply entities unnecessarily.
— J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
Each day, speak as if someone may be listening in and act as if someone could be watching. Do not say it if you do not mean it or know it to be true. Do not do anything privately that would shame you publicly. Good judgment should not cease simply because you think no one will ever know. Everything performed in the darkness is always revealed in the light. The Universe has an uncanny way of laying your life bare. Make sure you can deal with what may eventually be revealed.
— Carlos Wallace
However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
If Scientists Like Einstein didn't exist, we wouldn't never know about the Universe
— shady_N
Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.
— Debasish Mridha
I want to be like a Supernova
—  burn bright and die young.
You are the child of this universe. For you, she was waiting billions of years.
— Debasish Mridha
I am the universe and the universe is inside of me.
— Debasish Mridha
May living your truth set you free!
— Erin Fall Haskell
She was a universe holding a billion galaxies in her heart.
— Pradeep Kumar
Her love could stretch on unconditionally and endlessly, like it’s a universe within her. I’m drawn to the edge of that universe. I’d like to fall into a black hole of it somehow. I just whisper, “God.
— Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People
But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
Have you ever just laid down on the grass and watch as the day slowly transitions to evening? The sky flows through hues of orange and slowly fades to greys, the incredible palette of dusk. This is where the magic begins to happen. First the planets reveal themselves as bright pinpoints of light against the bleak canvas, and for a few moments they are the only thing you can focus on - they’re so bright that they draw away from anything else. When you stare at only one, when there is so much distance between it and anything else, it almost seems to be dancing back and forth in space, playing mind tricks on you. However, as you emerge from its hypnotic trance, you begin to see the less significant stars awaken from what seems like nowhere. They too earn your attention, but in a different way. You can’t look at them directly because otherwise you won’t see their beauty. You have to glance at them from the side, from the corner of your eye to really see them in their fullness. The sky is not yet completely in darkness and the universe is already showing off. Distant stars even further light years away and planets orbiting from afar being to emerge and before you know it you almost don’t know where to look, there are little grains of sand lighting up the sky from everywhere. This happens every night - a spectacular natural light show but so many people miss it. It’s sad to think that, but it makes viewing it that much more special when you get to experience it. Just you and the universe, watching itself through your own very eyes.
— Madeleine Jane Hall
Love. And again, see I don't mean, I think love is that condition in the human spirit so profund, that it allows us to forgive, and it may be the energy which keeps the stars in the firmament, I'm not sure. It may be the energy which keeps the blood running smoothly through our veins. I'm not sure, but it's something beyond the explanation. It can be used for anything you can explain. Any good thing you can explain.
— Maya Angelou
Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence
— David Huddle
No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and the universe doesn't. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see.
— R.J. Palacio
So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck.
— R.J. Palacio
At times it feels like the whole universe is pushing you to do something.
— Linda Westphal
When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
So,” said Zia, “you’re gonna eat your way through the whole universe, top to bottom. And then what?
— Adam Christopher, The Burning Dark
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
— Anonymous
The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.
— Stephen Hawking
Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of the universe. We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. It is a notion that is, in fact, utterly absurd, yet terribly important. Those so-called rational assumptions flow from this initial impossible situation. Western religion has its own singularity in the form of the apocalypse, an event placed not at the beginning of the universe but at its end. This seems a more logical position than that of science. If singularities exist at all it seems easier to suppose that they might arise out of an ancient and highly complexified cosmos, such as our own, than out of a featureless and dimensionless mega-void.
— Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations
Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.
— D.L. Orton, Crossing in Time
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment.
— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life
Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.
— Amy Leach, Things That Are
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?
— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life
A line has no parallel because it is itself the parallel.
— RJ Clawson
Imagine yourself in a parallel universe. Imagined? Now either attain or forget it.
— Alexander Zalan
Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do. Of course when you get what you want you feel good, but the truth is that you don't get what you want until you're already feeling good. You only get what you want when you're in alignment with the universe. And the key to align yourself with the universe/source/god is LOVE. When you're in love, you are at peace and NOW you're ready to receive and NOW the universe is ready to shout in your favor! So, get ready to ALIGN yourself with the universe! ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ‪#‎StardustAK‬
— Abhishek Kumar
If a sperm can give the berth to a human. Definitely sperm is powerful energy. So never waste it and burn this energy inside your body then see the difference.Science doesn't know more than 0.000% about the universe.Science is not even able to measure the strength of trust,true love and all.I have proved it.
— Deshwal Sachin
It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.
— Andrew  Smith, 100 Sideways Miles
The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are incapable of matching. It teaches us that we are the products of 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution and the mechanism by which meaning entered the universe, if only for a fleeting moment in time. Because the universe means something to me, and the fact that we are all agglomerations of quarks and electrons in a complex and fragile pattern that can perceive the beauty of the universe with visceral wonder, is, I think, a thought worth raising a glass to this Christmas.
— Brian Cox, There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas
When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe
— Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box
The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.
— Simone Weil
The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.
— D.B. Nielsen, Seed
The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Before I do anything I feel that I have a choice, and that influences what I do; but afterwards, when the thing is done, I believe it was inevitable from all eternity.''What do you deduce from that?''Why merely the futility of regret. It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge.
— Rick Yancey
Keep your ears open and listen to the whispers of the universe, because they will guide you for the best.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.
— Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
Stop identification of your thoughts nd celebrate Now. Bcz life is made up of time that is NOW . . . . .!!!
— Sushil Singh
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
We belong to the 'Stardust Family'. Thanks to those initial stars who sacrificed their precious lives for us! We're STARDUST! ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ‪#‎StardustAK‬
— Abhishek Kumar