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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Related topics: Spiritual
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- 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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- 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
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
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)
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
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)
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
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
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
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam
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
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
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
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 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
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
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
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
The means we use must be as pure
as the ends we seek.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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