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“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 how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
Steve Jobs
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
Mark Twain
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
Mark Twain
“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain
“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
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
Confucius
“Heaven means to be one with God.”
Confucius
“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
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
Stephen Hawking
“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
Plato
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.”
Euripides
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
Honore de Balzac
“True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.”
Moliere
“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”
Lord Byron
“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”
Sophocles
“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”
Victor Hugo
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
Victor Hugo
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
Franz Kafka
“Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.”
Franz Kafka
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
William Shakespeare
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
William Shakespeare
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
William Shakespeare
“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
William Shakespeare
“Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you.”
Drake
“They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.”
Clint Eastwood
