Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.
– Tao Te Ching
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.
– The Dhammapada
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
– Henri F. Amiel
Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
– Alan Marshall Beck
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.
– David Bissonette
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
– Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
– Mitchell Burgess
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.
– I Ching
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Divorces are made in heaven.
– Oscar Wilde
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
– Stanislaw J. Lec
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience.
– Joseph Campbell
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
– Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
– Helen Gurley Brown
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
– Tyron Edwards
