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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
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 street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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.
- The Buddha
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
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
The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Violent means will give violent freedom.
That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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