#universe

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#center #church #curved #death #down

You may have the universe if I may have Italy. ↗

— Giuseppe Verdi

#italy #may #universe #you

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen. ↗

— John Wozniak

#even #gifts #guides #happen #me

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

— Buddha

#anybody #deserve #entire #entire universe #love

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

#alone #i #little #low #our

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#force #greatest #i #ownership #second

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#constantly #creativity #direction #evolutionary #higher

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into