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“The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.”

Source: Inspiration & motivation

“How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!”

Thinking Life Looks Kind Seems Earth Pain Girl Heaven Behinds Kindness Wife Comfort Compare Odd Eclipse That Girl

Book:Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?”

Life Light Today Heaven Loses Half Tomorrow Deeds Believer Sparks Casual Wanderers

Author:Matthew Arnold

“God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.”

Men Life Earth Actors Heaven Written Poet Drama

Author:Honore de Balzac

“And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.”

Ifs Life Ends Earth Joy Lying Dies Heaven Change Hell Birth Life Changing Frozen Heaven And Hell Gloomy

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.”

Life May War Found Heaven Prayer Our Lives Sacrifice Praying Sight Acceptable

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

Life Heaven Known Havens Maps

Book:Trilogy

Source: Trilogy

“I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes yet to find me, And the good that I can do.”

Life Humans Heart Kind I Can Spirit Hope Heaven Can Do Goodness Tasks Ties Find Me Ties That Bind

Author:George Linnaeus Banks

“Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.”

Ifs Life Wells Funny Life Is Heaven Causes Hell Intention Deeds Extensions Good Deeds Life Is Short Good Intentions Heaven And Hell

Author:Ben Harper

“...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.