We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.
– Russell M. Nelson
You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
– Osho
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.
– William Shakespeare
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
– Ayn Rand
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
– Karen Sunde
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
– Hyman Rickover
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
– Dante
You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too.
– Japanese Proverb
My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys.
– Chao Li-hua
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
– Benjamin Franklin
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
– George Bernard Shaw
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
– Manly P. Hall
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
– G. E. Lessing
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
– Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
– Alfred Victor Vigny
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
– Leighton
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for
– Robert Browning
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
– Clive Staples Lewis
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
– Washington Irving
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
– J. B. Priestley
Beautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning; try to see the end!
Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
