„We shall be quiet and wait till a star falls from heaven. Can you see, how above one light appears after the other and they together form a dome! We sit in silence and fold our hands in prayer. We shall be quiet and wait until a star falls from heaven.“

—  Joseph Goebbels

Original: (de) Wir wollen stille sein und warten, bis ein Stern vom Himmel fällt. Siehst du, wie oben Licht an Licht sich zündet zu einem Dom! Wir sitzen im Schweigen und falten die Hände zum Gebet. Wir wollen stille sein und warten bis ein Stern vom Himmel fällt.
Source: Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

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Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945

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„Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd;
How long, how short, we know not this we know,
Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,
Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.“

—  Robert Blair, The Grave

Part I, line 417.
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Time, Waiting
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„Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.“

—  Virginia Woolf, book The Waves

Source: The Waves

Books, Light, Happiness
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„We shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in Heaven.“

—  Julian of Norwich, book Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 1

Pain, Joy

„Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.“

—  James Hillman American psychologist 1926 - 2011

Life, Star, Light
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„We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.“

—  Rick Warren Christian religious leader 1954

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Waiting, Help
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„After supper we are sitting close to the church in a quiet spot. As if from a distance we hear prayers and singing. The monks are holding their vesper services. Then it falls silent, wonderfully silent!
The sun has already set. … We are quiet, too. … A door is closed somewhere. A man's, then a woman's voice. Children are praying! My dear Jesus! Then it falls silent again. Wonderfully silent!
The night spreads its wide, black wings over the land.“

—  Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945

Nach dem Abendbrot sitzen wir an der Kirche in einem stillen Winkel. Wie von ferne hören wir Gebet und Singen. Die Mönche halten ihre Abendandacht. Und dann wird es still, wunderbar still!
Die Sonne ist schon untergegangen. … Auch wir schweigen. … Irgendwo wird eine Tür geschlossen. Eine Männer-, dann eine Frauenstimme. Kinderbeten! Du lieber Jesus mein! Dann wird es wieder still. Wunderbar still!
Die Nacht legt ihre breiten, schwarzen Flügel auf das Land.
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Children, Singing, Sun, Night
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„Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted,
We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted.“

—  George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted,
We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted.
By a hand of fire awakened, in a moment caught and led
Upward to the wondrous vision: through the star-mists overhead
Flare and flaunt the monstrous highlands; on the sapphire coast of night
Fall the ghostly froth and fringes of the ocean of the light.

Dreams, Star, Silence
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„If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.“

—  Oliver Cromwell English military and political leader 1599 - 1658

Speech to his army officers (23 March 1649)

God, Confidence, Departure, Waiting
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„No, I will not. We shall wait and see.“

—  H. H. Asquith Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1852 - 1928

Answer to an elector who asked him if he would say what he would do if the House of Lords rejected a Bill limiting their veto, in East Fife (20 January 1910), quoted in The Times (21 January 1910), p. 10

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„We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech“

—  William Carlos Williams, book Paterson

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Silence

„That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.“

—  Mary Gardiner Brainard American poet 1837 - 1905

Ownership, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Love, Star
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„Quiet Prayer:
As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face.“

—  Brian Andreas American artist 1956

Children, Age, Lovers, Time
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„If we never fell, we should not know how feeble and how wretched we are of our self, and also we should not fully know that marvellous love of our Maker. For we shall see verily in heaven, without end, that we have grievously sinned in this life, and notwithstanding this, we shall see that we were never hurt in His love, we were never the less of price in His sight. And by the assay of this falling we shall have an high, marvellous knowing of love in God, without end. For strong and marvellous is that love which may not, nor will not, be broken for trespass.“

—  Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

Summations, Chapter 61

Hurt, God, Strong, Self-confidence
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„I still don't know what I was waiting for / A big love to fall down from the sky
Heaven must have sent you / To save me from the rapture“

—  Noel Gallagher British musician 1967

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Love, Waiting

„…Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall—poets have no choice about this—but he waits writing; and this—other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible—is the best way for a poet to wait.“

—  Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965

“The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 66
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Way, Thinking, Waiting
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„I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.“

—  Amy Tan American novelist 1952

Love, Star
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„We propose to entirely exclude prayer and every form of ritual. Thus shall we avoid even the appearance of interfering with those to whom prayer and ritual, as a mode of expressing religious sentiment, are dear. And on the other hand we shall be just to those who have ceased to regard them as satisfactory and dispensed with them in their own persons.“

—  Felix Adler German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer 1851 - 1933

Founding Address (1876)

Appearance, Personality
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„If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.“

—  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862

Source: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Disappointment, Hope
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„Roll on, ye Stars! exult in youthful prime,
Mark with bright curves the printless steps of Time;
Near and more near your beamy cars approach,
And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach; —
Flowers of the sky! ye too to age must yield,
Frail as your silken sisters of the field!
Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush,
Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush,
Headlong, extinct, to one dark center fall,
And Death and Night and Chaos mingle all!
— Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm,
Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form,
Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,
And soars and shines, another and the same.“

—  Erasmus Darwin, book The Botanic Garden

The Botanic Garden (1791), Part i.

Death, Youth, Age, Cars

„At least, above us, stars shine,
tiny pieces of heaven that overflowing
with happiness and absorb our tiredness.
Every heart's a star within,
that echoing the bliss of eternity.
every star's a aflame heart
that holds our hand“

—  alexis karpouzos

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