"O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't."
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"Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell."
"You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested."
"I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven."
"The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens."
"The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations."
"Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize."
"Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth."
"What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth."
""If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence."
"We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell."
"There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven."
"We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body."
"Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things."
"I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."
"If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there."
"Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions."
"The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world."
"You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception."
"His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost."