Laozi Quotes, People Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

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CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

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Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

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Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

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Can we outrun the heavens?

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From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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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.

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I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Care Quotes

Patch up thine old body for heaven.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

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I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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