If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
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O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple Hell?
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HARRY YOU When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth...
MITCH ALBOM It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed ...
STEVE ALFORD Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stan...
KAREN MARIE MONING Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.
STEVEN REDHEAD Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O yo...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS Hell is repetition, you go over and over and over. That's hell, so I will eat your eyes in hell, I w...
DEYTH BANGER Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, m...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LEWIS Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C.S. LEWIS To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firm...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi...
GARY RUDZ If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.
BEN STILLER Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven an...
SUN TZU Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least ex...
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least ex...
CHARLES F. KETTERING Keep your Eyes on your Vision, and your Vision will find You.
DONNA M THOMAS Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiori...
GUY DEUTSCHER You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If...
CYNTHIA HAND Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life...
C. JOYBELL C. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt;...
SUN TZU What if heaven or hell have nothing to do with circumstances bestowed upon you and everything with t...
RENATE VULLINGS I told her to look in my eyes , but she said " if i looked into your eyes you will find love for you...
ABDULLAH KHAN (AK) See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.
SANTOSH KALWAR 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expectin...
CHARLES KETTERING Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expectin...
CHARLES F. KETTERING What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
JOEL OSTEEN If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not g...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongs...
C. JOYBELL C. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what arc...
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ANDREW WORKMAN If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
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FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach yo...
ERIC HOLDER Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Neither heaven nor hell can keep me apart from you, Melanie.
STEPHENIE MEYER You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.
ROGER SMITH If you position yourself properly, you will never need eyes in the back of your head.
JOHN LEACH Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have be...
ANONYMOUS If you trust the winner within you, you will win.
If you can keep your courage, you will go so f...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When you look into your soulmates eyes, you see the world; into your soulmates heart, you see the sk...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of yo...
KELLY SLATER You, in bloom, heart, beloved,
you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyes
and I look...
PABLO NERUDA What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Ea...
TYLER PERRY Expect obstacles in your endeavour. You are bound to face some obstacles along the way. Understandin...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A hundred years later and someone gazes upon you as if you were heaven itself, but you know in your ...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in ...
THOMAS TRAHERNE Keep your eyes on what you want to achieve and work at it until you achieve it
SOTONYE ANGA If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you left fear keep you in the boat, you will never walk on water.
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TERRY PRATCHETT …so many ticks steadily around the clock. My heart beats ferociously, as if to say it will not dig...
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CHRIS HOVAN Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes...
JORDAN SPIETH You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.
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DR. SEUSS If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you m...
DEBBIE FORD If you're going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LEWIS Taunt me at your peril, angel. I'm only a man. So before you tumble from heaven into my bed, be very...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain.
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CAT DEELEY Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most ...
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KAGE BAKER Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the groun...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the groun...
DANTE ALIGHIERI If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is c...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.
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OPRAH WINFREY All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will ne...
MORIHEI UESHIBA ...you are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you.
VESNA M. BAILEY To hell with your money,if your character is hell on earth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Having a Coke with You
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.
'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at...
EUGENE O'NEILL I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
FRANK O'HARA Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.
BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo...
ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r...
STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ...
STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat...
TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto...
R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti...
MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be...
R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co...
TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not...
JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ...
STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ...
TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
TIM O'BRIEN