On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Steven Tyler

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
Cat Stevens

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Cat Stevens

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
John Burroughs

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Bell Hooks

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike