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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Sep 30, 2025
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different experience than looking through the window. And it's kind of the same on earth. If you're driving in a car and you see like a beautiful sunset or landscape, it looks so much better if you stop and get out and kind of take it all in and that's kind of what it's like doing a spacewalk.
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.
I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.
I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?
Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.
The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.
To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.
Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.
Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.