#heaven

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

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. ↗

— Buddha

#battles #better #cannot #conquer #demons

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ↗

— William Congreve

#fury #hatred #heaven #hell #like

You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#death #forgiveness #god #heaven #death

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. ↗

— Epictetus

#every man #get #heaven #his #man

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#fools #heaven #hold #idlers #lay

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#detroit #heaven #hell #out #turned

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? ↗