Meaning of the quote

"Follow your own star!" This quote means that you should listen to your own inner voice and do what feels right for you, even if it's different from what other people think you should do. It's encouraging you to be true to yourself and follow your own path in life, not just do what others tell you to do. The quote is reminding you to follow your own dreams and goals, not someone else's.

About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was an influential Italian poet, writer, and philosopher known for his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy. He helped establish the use of the Italian vernacular in literature and is considered a national poet of Italy and one of the greatest literary icons of the Western world.

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante Alighieri

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Small projects need much more help than great.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Follow your own star!

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

He listens well who takes notes.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

I love to doubt as well as know.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)

Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265-1321)