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“The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.”

Thinking Two Shows Law Imagination Sky Example Moon Discovery Connections Opening Apples Two Things Thrown Gravity Sailing Newton

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.”

Thinking Knows Humans Looks Children Life Is Stars Born Human Beings Our Lives Alive Sky Wind Empty Nonsense Have Faith Cranes Stars In The Sky

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Wells Real Together Past Lying Night Stars Felt Sides Walks Morning Sky Arms First Time Tired Breathe Disappear Shoulders Parks Necks Lit Patches Tourists Lying Down

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Littles Reality Light Heaven Stars Seeing Magic Sky Streets Building Planets Fit Moon Street Lights

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Looks Mean Long Light Seems Science Stars Difficult Taken Nice Sky Red Accounts Astronomy Difficult Things Cosmology Away From You Dwarfs Calculating Light Years

Author:Mark Haddon

“By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

Thinking Home Eye House Memories Space Morning Sun Tree Sky Havens Remembered Neighborhood Autumn Horizon October Curb Open Spaces Morning Sun Old Neighborhood

Book:For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald”

Thinking World Way Night Stars Easy Realizing Dark Millions Sky Havens Staring Brian Dark Night

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.”

Thinking World Trying Looks Children Littles House Dark Sky Crazy Dog Huge Baby Walking Red Clouds Scary Supposed To Be Dirty Awe Openness Wow Reverence Burned Dark Clouds

Author:Anne Lamott

“Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.”

Thinking World Looks Heart Religion Effort Teach Sky Fit Allies Imaginary Supporter Places To Live

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade. I used to come every day, or, you know, when I could, I'd bring Bo after work. Or just myself." At night sometimes. You'd climb the fence. You'd watch the stars. You'd tilt back your head and look at the sky. You'd think it over, whatever it was.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Long Sometimes Used Night Asks Stars Watches Sky Months Climbs Fence Tilt Jade

Book:Nature of Jade

Source: Nature of Jade

“I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.”

Thinking World Looks Ends Found Lost Felt Walks Saws Sky Comfort Size I Realized Stuck Wander Look Up Floats Somewhere Else Closing Campus Drifting Balloons Drifting Off

Author:Nick Burd

“I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?”

People Thinking World May Children Light Used Stars Grows Cities Growing Up Seeing Generations Air Sky Asking Guides Used To Be Dirty Blank Globes Jewels Sailor Dazzle

Author:Michael Jackson

“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”

Ifs Thinking Fire Sky Positive Law Of Attraction

Book:The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

“20 minutes later: a girl on Himmel Street. She looks up. She speaks in whisper. 'The sky is soft today, Max. The clouds are so soft and sad, and...' She looks away and crosses her arms. She thinks of her papa going to war and grabs her jacket at each side of her body. 'And it's cold, Max. It's so cold.”

Thinking Looks War Body Today Girl Speak Sides Sky Streets Minutes Arms Cold Crosses Clouds Look Up Jackets Max Papa Going To War Himmel Street

Author:Markus Zusak

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

Thinking Earth Sky Dancer Reaching Touching Ballet Ballet Dancer Pointe Reaching Up

Author:Paulo Coelho

“There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.”

Thinking Matter Seems Lying Stars Hours Fire Journey Sky Havens Down And Scholar Strain Sixteen Chalk Our Town Everybody Lies

Book:Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater

Source: Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater

“"Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before. I think about what it means in the village when boys and girls only a few years older then Harper and me wander around with their hands clasped together. They're always peering dreamily into each other's eyes, sneaking sky kisses...and soon after, there's a wedding.”

Thinking Years Mean Hands Eye Together Order Girl Boys Sky Mines Letting Go Kissing Wander Dry Village Goats Soothing Boy And Girl Harper Don't Let Go

Author:Margaret Haddix

“He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?”

Thinking Men World Way Looks Done Sky Men And Women Dare Torn Another World

Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

“An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.”

“I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Care Stars Chance Millions Saws Sky Towers Thinking Of Others

Author:Lord Dunsany

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.”

Ifs Thinking Years May Mean Doe Country Seems Beautiful Waiting White Interesting Tree Sky Modern Personality Laughter Snow Brown Catastrophe Grey Days Of The Year

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.”

Thinking Made Important Sometimes Moments Remember Joy Fall Three Alive Week Sky Minutes Color Despair Illusion Rainbow Vivid Spectacular Hail Azaleas

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Believe Earth Remember Hate Courage Sky Love You Strength Wall Arms Thousand Hundred Refuse Pins Refusal

Author:Lauren Oliver

“life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Kind Use Imagination Focus Sea Sky Building Painting Flower Convinced Abstract Butterfly Live Your Life Bizarre Blur Abstract Painting

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.”

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

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