Star
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When it is dark enough,
you can see the stars.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One little star, smiling tonight
knows where you are
Stay, little star, steady and bright
to guide me afar
―Gillian Welch
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
―Carl Sagan
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
―Vincent van Gogh
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Though my soul may set in darkness,
it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly
to be fearful of the night.
―Sarah Williams
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
―Og Mandino
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
―Oscar Wilde
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It is not in the stars
to hold our destiny
but in ourselves.
―William Shakespeare
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Love like a star,
once small and far,
now huge, now near.
—Lee Robinson
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One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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100% stardust.
―Seen on a T-shirt at Berkeley Bowl
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Poem: The Peace of Wild Things