All our lives are sketches on the wide canvas of our universe.

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contains on average some one hundred billion stars. If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.- Frank Zappa

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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. ― Arthur C. Clarke

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.― Sharon Salzberg

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.- Frank Zappa

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The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

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Everything is a gift of the universe--even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment._ Ken Keyes Jr.

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Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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