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. . . HEAVEN see: "REWARD" see: "DEATH" for other related links see: "RELIGION" for other related links The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in heaven before unfelt. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 12 [10th ed. 1884]. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? --Robert Browning (18121889) English poet. _Andrea del Sarto_, l. 97 [1855] - When death's dark stream I ferry o'er A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself, I'll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome. --Robert Burns (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "A verse...on taking Leave" [2 September 1787] If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this. --Robert Burns (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "Epitaph on a Friend" in _The Works of Robert Burns_, v. 4 [4 vols., 1800]. - I'll tell you a big secret, my friend. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. --Albert Camus (19131960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. _La Chute_ (The Fall) [1956] Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. --Emily Dickinson (18301886) American poet. "My life closed twice before its close", l. 7 [unknown date] - ... Now, lying in my hospital bed, I wondered: What happens when you die? Could I see my mother again? I would like that. But maybe, after death, you come before that mythical Man with a long beard, sitting on a throne. You stand before Him, puny and timid. Then you ask, "Is this heaven?" And He roars back, "Heaven! You just came from there!" And as your eyes widen, He continues, "Ingrate! Didn't you like the sunrise, the sunset, the moon, and the stars? Weren't you pleased with the mountains, forests, rivers, and streams that I gave you?" I remain silent as the voice roars. "Didn't you like the fragrant flowers and fruits and vegetables I gave you? And when I nurtured those plants with rain, you complained because you couldn't play golf. Ingrate! That was heaven!" --Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (b. 1916) American film actor and producer. _My Stroke of Luck_ [2002], "Death Takes a Holiday" - If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. --attributed to Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong, And may you be in heaven Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. --Irish toast A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most perfect prayer. --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (17291781) German dramatist. _Minna von Barnhelm_, II, vii [1767] Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. _Aphorisms_ [1765-1799], "Notebook L", Aphorism 34 If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. --attributed to Martin Luther (14831546) German Protestant theologian. [Of clouds:] They are fair resting-places For the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. --Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Hiner Miller] (18371913) American poet and journalist. "Ina", sc. I in _Songs of the Sierras_ [1871]. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. "Paradise Lost" [1667] 'But is all this *true*?' said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. 'Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends toward guesswork.' --Terry Pratchett (b. 1948) English science fiction writer. _Small Gods_ [1992] ... 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. --Tom Robbins (b. 1936) American author. _Skinny Legs and All_ p. 305 [1990] My idea of heaven is eating pβtι de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. (The view of Smith's friend Henry Luttrell.) --Sydney Smith (17711845) English clergyman and essayist, in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review." In H. Pearson _The Smith of Smith's_ [1934]. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_ [1854], ch.16 "The Pond in Winter" ["Advice", upon reaching the Pearly Gates:] Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and the dog would go in. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Written a few days before he died. Paradise is where I am. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Le Mondain_ [1736] - All its inhabitants ascend to heaven right after their deaths, having served their full time in hell right on Manhattan Island. _The Bernard Bulletin_ [22 September 1967] -- Little Willie asked one day, "Mamma, don't men ever go to heaven?" His mother answered, "Of course , they do! What makes you ask?" Willie answered, "Because I never saw any pictures of angels with whiskers." The quick-witted mother answered, "Oh, that's because most men who go to heaven get there by a close shave." ----- empyrean [em-py-REE-uhn; -PEER-ee-], noun: 1. The highest heaven, in ancient belief usually thought to be a realm of pure fire or light. 2. Heaven; paradise. 3. The heavens; the sky. supernal [soo-PUR-nuhl], adjective: 1. Being in or coming from the heavens or a higher place or region. 2. Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly.  . . see: "PUNISHMENT" see: "DEATH" for other related links see: "RELIGION" for other related links Hell, Madame, is to love no longer. --Georges Bernanos (18881948) French novelist and esssayist. _Diary of a Country Priest _ [1936] - Hell is full of good intentions or desires. --St. Bernard of Clairvaux (10901153) Cistercian monk and mystic; the founder and abbot of the abbey of Clairvaux. Attributed in St. Francis de Sales, Letter 74. & see: Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. --George Herbert (15931633) English religious poet. _Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640] & see: Hell is paved with good intentions. --attributed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Richard Baxter. - There is probably no hell for authors in the next world they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_"Authors" [1862] If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart. --Robert Burton (15771640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621-1651] ], "Democritus to the Reader" - Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _The Giaour_, l. 748 [1813] A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Detached Thoughts_ [1821-1822], # 96 - The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. --Albert Camus (19131960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. _La Peste_ ("The Plague") [1947] If you're going through hell, keep going. --attributed to Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Mourning Bride", act 3, sc. 8 [1697] - The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. --anon. Credited to Dante by JFK in a 1959 speech, these are not Dante's words according to Ralph Keyes in _The Quote Verifier_. Fred R. Shapiro in _The Yale Book of Quotations_ agrees, and adds that Arthur M. Schlesinger "states in _A Thousand Days_ that Kennedy wrote" a similar passage "and attributed the words to Dante." Thus, the origin remains unclear. Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate! (All hope abandon, ye who enter here!) --Dante Alighieri (12651321) Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher. _La Divina Commedia_ (The Divine Comedy) canto 3, l. 9 [c. 13101321] [Words written over the entrance to Hell.] - No sin to cheat the devil. --Daniel Defoe (16601731) English novelist and journalist. _History of the Devil_, pt. II, ch. 10 [1726] Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. --Emily Dickinson (18301886) American poet. "My life closed twice before its close", l. 7 [unknown date] To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. In "Journal" [20 December 1822]. Religious contention is the devil's harvest. --Jean de La Fontaine (16211695) French poet. Attributed in Henry Southgate (ed.) _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 119 [1862, 3rd edition]. Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man. --Sigmund Freud (18561939) Austrian psychiatrist. Quoted in _New York Times Magazine_ [6 May 1956]. - Hell's broken loose. --Robert Greene (15581592) English playwright. _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_ [acted 1594] & note: All Hell broke loose. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _Paradise Lost_ [1667], bk. 4, l. 917 - Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. --attributed to Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.) May the grass grow long on the road to hell for want of use. --Irish toast No greater hell than to be slave to fear. --Ben Jonson (c.15731637) English dramatist and poet. _Every Man in His Humour_, III, ii [1598] - About Hell. All I have ever said is that the N.T. [New Testament] plainly implies the possibility of some being finally left in "the outer darkness." Whether this means (horror of horror) being left to a purely mental existence, left with nothing at all but one's own envy, prurience, resentment, loneliness and self-conceit, or whether this is still some sort of environment, something you could call a world or a reality, I would never pretend to know. But I wouldn't put the question in the form "do I believe in an actual Hell." One's own mind is actual enough. If it doesn't seem fully actual now that is because you can always escape from it a bit into the physical world look out of the window, smoke a cigarette, go to sleep. But when there is nothing for you but your own mind (no body to go to sleep, no books or landscape, nor sounds, no drugs) it will be as actual as as well, as a coffin is actual to a man buried alive. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves_ [1986], "13 May 1946" - If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "New England Two Centuries Ago" [1865] [Attributed remarks on his deathbed:] I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles. --Niccolς Machiavelli (14691527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. - He will give the devil his due. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Henry IV_, I, ii [1597] Hell is empty, And all the devils are here! --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _The Tempest_, I, ii [16111612] - The basic reason why moderns disbelieve in hell is because they really disbelieve in freedom and responsibility. To believe in hell is to assert that the consequences of good and bad acts are not indifferent. --Fulton John Sheen (18951979) Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television. _Preface To Religion_ [1946] If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell. --Philip H. Sheridan (18311888) American army general. At Fort Clark, Texas [1855]. Satan: (impatiently), to new-comer: The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar", in _More Tramps Abroad_ [1897]. - At the Superbowl, three rowdy young men, sat in their seats guzzling beer when three nuns dressed in their habits sat down in front of them. The first rowdy poked the one on his right and said in a carrying voice, "I'm going to move to South Dakota. I hear there are only about 100 Catholics living there." The second laughed and said, "No, I'm going to move to Texas. There are only 50 Catholics living in Texas." "Not me," the third said. "I'm moving to Montana. There are only 2 Catholics in Montana." The smallest of the three nuns turned around and smiled sweetly. "Why don't you just go straight to Hell? There are NO Catholics living there." ;void(0)) HELPING . . see: "COOPERATION" see: "TEAMWORK" see: "UNITY" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links - God lives to help him who strives to help himself. --Aeschylus (525456 B.C.) Greek tragic dramatist. Fragment 223 & note: God helps those who help themselves. --Algernon Sidney (16221683) English Whig politician. _Discourses Concerning Government_, ch. 2 [1698] & also: God helps those who help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1736] - A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to man's generosity, in a graceful declaration of weakness whereby she inflates his pride and awakens the noblest sentiments in his breast. --Honorι de Balzac (17991850) French journalist and writer. _La Recherche de l'Absolu:_ (The Quest of the Absolute) [1834] He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer. --William Blake (17571827) English poet. "Jerusalem" ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 [1815] You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. --Charles Bukowski (19201994) German-born American poet. "Too Sensitive" in _Tales of Ordinary Madness_ [1967]. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_, v. III [1790] - A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself. --Robert Burton (15771640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [16211651] "Democritus Junior to the Reader" but note: Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. --John of Salisbury _Metalogicon_ [1159] (Bernard of Chartres (fl. 1100) French Neo-Platonist philosopher and scholar. & see: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Sir Isaac Newton (16421727) English mathematician and physicist. Letter to Robert Hooke [5 February 1676]. & lastly: If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. --attributed to Jeff Goll by Hal Abelson. - I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. Letter to Thomas Moore [2 April 1823]. When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? No here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. --George Canning (17701827) British statesman; prime minister [1827]. Song for the inauguration of the Pitt Club [25 May 1802]. If you want happiness for a day go fishing. If you want happiness for a month get married. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime help someone else. --Chinese Proverb If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others. --attributed to Dalai Lama [Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub] (b. 1935) Spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. (Dalai Lama is Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom") To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. --attributed to Demosthenes (c.364c.322 B.C.) Athenian orator and statesman. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Our Mutual Friend_ [18641865], ch. IX "Somebody Becomes the Subject of a Prediction" If I can stop one Heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain. Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in vain. --Emily Dickinson (18301886) American poet. "If I can stop one heart from breaking", written in 1864; in "Poems, First Series" [1890]. You can't be of help to everybody! say the narrow-minded, and help nobody. --Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (18301916) Austrian writer. _Aphorisms_ [1880-1905], tr. David Scrase and Wolfgang Mieder [1994] If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. --attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. - I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. --Edward Everett Hale (18221909) American clergyman, writer, and chaplain of the Senate. "Ten Times One is Ten" [1870] & see: I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do. --anon. Quoted in Dwight Lyman Moody _One Thousand and One Thoughts from My Library_ [1898]. - Try to be of some use to others. --Joseph Hall (15741656) English bishop, moral philosopher, and satirist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 41 [1886]. Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. --attributed to Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. - For of those to whom much is given, much is required. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Speech at The State House, Boston, Massachusetts [9 January 1961]. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Inaugural Address [20 January 1961]. - [On his controversial goal against England in the 1986 World Cup:] The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. --Diego Maradona (b. 1960) Argentine football player. In "Guardian" [1 July 1986]. What is wrong with the old Adam Smith philosophy and what should be completely unacceptable to any American (and I would say this particularly to my fellow Republicans) is the idea of the survival of the fittest. Let's put it this way: The fittest should survive, and also the fit should survive. Those who are 'unfit' you have to have a social conscience about, to take care of them. The 'survival of the fittest' assumes 'the hell with the rest of them.' This is wrong, morally and socially, apart from being completely wrong politically. --Richard Nixon (19131994) American Republican statesman, President [19691974]. Quoted in Earl Mazo, _Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait_ [1959]. Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves. --Scott Peck (19362005) American author. _The Different Drum_, p. 97 [1987] What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. --Albert Pike (18091891) American attorney, journalist, and soldier. _Ex Corde Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren_ [1993] "In Lodge of Sorrow at Washington" [March 30 1860] We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in. --Colin L. Powell (b. 1937) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [19891993] and Secretary of State [20012005]. Speech at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland [26 January 2003]. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In _The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: Through the Brazilian Wilderness and Papers on Natural History_ [1914]. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. --attributed to Albert Schweitzer (18751965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. Our words should aim not to please, but to help. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "On the Diseases of the Soul" _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own. --Fulton John Sheen (18951979) Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television. _On Being Human_ [1982] Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down. --Paul Simon (b. 1941) American singer and songwriter. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" [1969 song] Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. --Talmud (A.D.1st6th cent.) _Mishnah_ "Sanhedrin" 4:5 [Upon reflecting that he had done nothing to help anybody all day:] Friends, I have lost a day. --Titus (3981) Roman emperor from A.D. 79. In Suetonius _Lives of the Caesars_ "Titus." If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar", ch. 16 ----- altruism (noun) ['ζl-tru-iz-κm] The impulse to help others, ignoring oneself; doing good without selfish motivation. auspice (noun) ['a(w)-spis] 1. Patronage, support or propitious influence on behalf of someone else. 2. A positive omen, especially from a flock of birds. supererogation (noun) [su-pκ-'rer-κ-gey-shκn] The act of performing beyond the call of duty; the act of doing more than is necessary. end page | HABIT - HANGOVER | HAPPINESS | HAPPY BIRTHDAY - HATE | HATS - HEAT | HEALTH | HEAVEN - HELPING | HEROES - HIROSHIMA | HISTORIANS & HISTORY | HITCHCOCK - HOLLYWOOD | HOLOCAUST - HOMOSEXUALS | HOME - HOME & FAMILY | HONESTY & HONOR | HOOVER - HOTELS | HOUSE - HUMAN NATURE | HUMAN RACE - HUMANITY | HUMILIATION - HURT | HUMOR | HURTING (SOMEONE) | HUSBANDS - HYPOCRISY | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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