Heaven Quotes

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

Hell, Company, Climate

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Earth, Aim, Neither

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

Yourself, Win, Cannot

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

God, Knowledge, Ignorance

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

Friends, Hell, Both

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, Hell, Nor

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Humor, Human, Joy

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Hands, Hold

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain

Humor, Joy, Secret

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

Life, Love, Work

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

Words, Thoughts

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

Family, Happy, Earlier

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Good, Rain

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Act, Toward, Stone

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 as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

Keep, Mad, Sweet

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Happiness, God, Perfect

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

Love, Makes, Heavenly

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix

Crazy, Craziness

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

Fire, Invention, Muse

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton

Mind, Hell, Place

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing, Friend

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius

Life, Death, Determined

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, True, Human

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Respect, Political, Easy

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Heart, After

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu

Great, Creative, Beginning

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