Tag: beauty
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via apod.nasa.gov “Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” – Carl Sagan
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via upload.wikimedia.org “I had an experience… I can’t prove it, I can’t even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever… A vision of the universe that…
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via upload.wikimedia.org “Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine,…
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At first glance NGC 3077 looks like a typical, relatively peaceful elliptical galaxy. However, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image dramatically reveals it is actually a hotbed of very energetic star formation and the whole galaxy is laced with dusty tendrils. It lies about 13 million light-years from Earth.…
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via apod.nasa.gov Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one’s life well and happily… Only the liberation of…
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via apod.nasa.gov “The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/November#1
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via apod.nasa.gov “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” – Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Eleanor+Roosevelt
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via spacetelescope.org The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye towards a tight collection of stars, first seen 174 years ago. The result is a sparkling image of NGC 1806, tens of thousands of stars gravitationally bound into a rich cluster. Commonly called globular clusters, most of these…
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via apod.nasa.gov “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville http://themodernword.com/
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via apod.nasa.gov “Where they burn books, sooner or later they will also burn people” – Heinrich Heine http://themodernword.com/
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via apod.nasa.gov “Love is the distance between reality and pain.” – Robyn Hitchcock http://themodernword.com/
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Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We…
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via apod.nasa.gov “There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people if he’s any good.” – Fitzgerald http://themodernword.com/