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Please help me solve this mystery............WHO WROTE OR SAID THIS? It is not complete and I would like to get the ending! THANKS!

If you're lying on a beach with

80 billion grains of sand beneath you,

700 thousand ocean waves before you,

and you're still not at all impressed,

I want you to think about this:

The light you see reflecting from the stars is over one million years old.

But, then, just before you start to feel like a mere blip

in the gigantic scheme of things.....................

I found this:

If you're ever lying on a beach with
80 billion* grains of sand beneath you,
700 thousand* ocean waves before you,
60 million* stars stretched out above you,
and you're still not at all impressed,
I want you to think about this:
The light you see reflecting from the stars is over one million* years old.
WOW.
But then, just before you start to feel like a mere blip
in the gigantic scheme of things, please remember this:
Yes, you are small, but you're also irreplaceable
and invaluable
and miraculous.
Those stars don't have anything on you.

Reminds me of Monty Python's "Galaxy Song" from The Meaning of Life.

http://users.htcomp.net/weis/meaning4eeyore.html

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Michael Moncur
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I had found this, word for word as Phaedrus has already posted (so I won't repeat it), and posted it in reply to a request on another quotation website. I found it in a post on a discussion forum, and neither of the links I provided work now.
The person that posted it was exuberant about it and the book that he found it in:

"I Hope You Dance" written by Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers, foreword written by Lee Ann Womack
http://www.nelsondirect.com/nelsondirec ... 1558538445

They also wrote Womack's smash hit song "I Hope You Dance."

It is attributed to Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers at this Google cached webpage
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:x_ ... n&ie=UTF-8