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“They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ”
— Clint Eastwood
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
— Steve Jobs
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
— Anne Frank
“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.”
— Mark Twain
“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
— Plato
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”
— Martin Luther King
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
— Mark Twain
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
— Mark Twain
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
— Mother Teresa
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'”
— Stephen King
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
— Confucius
“Heaven means to be one with God.”
— Confucius
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
— Buddha
“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. ”
— Euripides
“True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.”
— Moliere
“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”
— Lord Byron
“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”
— Sophocles
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
— Victor Hugo
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ”
— Franz Kafka
“Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. ”
— Franz Kafka
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”
— William Shakespeare
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! ”
— William Shakespeare
“Help thyself and Heaven will help thee. ”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”
— Rudyard Kipling
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
— Clive Staples Lewis
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
— Michelangelo
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”
— Michelangelo
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