Vastness Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye Download Open image ““I wondered stony afternoons owning all their vastness.”” — Naomi Shihab Nye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afternoons Owning Owning Vastness Stony Afternoons Vastness Wondered Stony
“You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“...never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.” — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.” — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“But during the day... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was the very nature of summer. So many long, lazy days when blissfully, nothing changes, and then everything does, all at once.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There is only gain when you love Nature so profoundly, the richness is everlasting , however much spent'.” — Ansul Noor Copy Share Image
“... wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But I know we need to keep warm here on earth And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea. Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle of black boulders. No… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Remembering your mistakes more acutely than any minor success. This was the worst. The things that kept you up at night. Tip a waiter… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. — David Koepp Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful… — Timothy Freke Copy Share Image
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