“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.” PeopleEnoughTurnsStarsMillionsMinutesRocksStageFrontsTvsThousandLuckyConcertsRock StarSpinal Tap Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.” PlaySpiritStarsClearFieldsBuddhismThousandTenEnlightenmentSexualityGymJungleRadiance Author:Frederick Lenz
“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.” PeopleYearsIdeasEarthStarsAliveThousandEternityArchitectureAstronomyPlotThousand YearsMosesGeometryPyramidsCalendarsMost Awesome Author:Walter Cronkite
“And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory: this is for you, you, you. These are for you-gifts-these are for you-grace-these are for you-God, so count the ways He loves, a thousand, more, never stop, that when you wake in the morning you can't help turn humbly to the east, unfold your hand to the heavens, and though you tremble and though you wonder, though the world is ugly, it is beautiful, and you can slow and you can trust and you can receive each moment as grace.” WorldWayMomentsHelpingHandsEarthBeautifulFacesTurnsHeavenStarsWonderMorningGraceFeetThousandGloryRainUglyEastOver YouYour FaceSpinningBrazen Author:Ann Voskamp
“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.” WayTwoHomeHandsMightStarsWhiteAnimalSeaFeetThousandOceanHundredBluePoundsParadoxKillersLiving ThingsSharksWhalesMilky WayTwo Hands Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“I gaze upon the thousand stars That fill the midnight sky; And wish, so passionately wish, A light like theirs on high. I have such eagerness of hope To benefit my kind; I feel as if immortal power Were given to my mind.” IfsFeelsMindKindLightGivenWishStarsSkyThousandBenefitsEnthusiasmImmortalMidnightNight SkyEagerness Author:Margaret Landon
“The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.” GivingLooksChildrenSeemsEyeTogetherHeavenStarsPerfectHumilityHumourThousandHumorousAll ThingsDignityOptimismHeavyAbsenceKingdomsNosesCosmosFascinatingTouchingHintsKingdom Of HeavenAstonishmentCarnivalsEndearingSolemnity Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.” WorldWayTogetherStarsChanceDestinyRiskOne ThingTreeFeetThousandRiversDignityListsLinksMudDecencyClosingChances AreUnbreakableLeopardsPine Trees Author:Mary Oliver