Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith hath sanctified.
– Mahabharata
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
– Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
– Mencius
So many ways to hell and only one leading to heaven. It truly takes a Divine force to keep an imbalanced universe such as this one from collapsing in on itself
– Ahmed Korayem
Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn’t any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
– Anouk Aimee
Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
– Hafiz
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.
– H. L. Mencken
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
– Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
– Saadi
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
– Edward Chapin
The fish dwell in the depths of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook; but the heart of man at a foot?s distance cannot be known.*
– Burmese Proverb
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
– James Arthur Baldwin
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
– Martin Luther
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven
– John Milton, Dr. Faustus
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
– John Milton
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
– William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
– David Thomas
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
– Mark Twain
The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great
– Hung Tzu-ch'eng
