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Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.


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ANNE RICE I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between h...
DAVE HUNT If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall n...
C.S. LEWIS The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven
JOHN MILTON animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Heaven is the gateway to hell, and hell is also the gateway to heaven.
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ад...
ELIF SHAFAK If there is a heaven and hell, then I wonder, are the people in heaven asking god to forgive and sto...
JASON BOURKE The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better ...
JOHN MILTON Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reig...
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON Heaven and Hell are within you. Choose wisely or to hell with you!
TAPAN GHOSH Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.
JOHN DAVIDSON Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell.
EMILY DICKINSON It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
GEORGE HERBERT Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Accep...
ABHIJIT NASKAR That is heaven, this is hell.
CARLO BELLONI People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful w...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUG HORTON If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUGLAS HORTON The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi...
GARY RUDZ “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain forever.<...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The end of your life is just the start of heaven or hell.
VIKRANT PARSAI Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.
AMAN JASSAL I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.
NINA HAGEN If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously ove...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hea...
OMAR KHAYYáM We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he i...
BARONESS ORCZY We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he i...
EMMA ORCZY As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. T...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Lucifer: The million lords of hell stand arrayed about you. Tell us, why we should let you leave? He...
NEIL GAIMAN I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time ...
J. D. SALINGER Heaven without love : what a hell.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE All our troubles begin when we break life up into segments and see things fragmentarily. No, all pla...
OSHO The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven ...
RICHARD STEELE SR. The specific 'heaven' you 'go to' is built upon what you believe and the hell you can descend to is ...
ALAN B JONES Do all things possible to be recognized by Heaven, for that is the true noble thing!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing hea...
ISAAC ASIMOV Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin a...
ROBERT C. SHANNON I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.
STEVEN REDHEAD Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
ABERJHANI O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
THOMAS DEKKER Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS The link between heaven and hell is imagination
GEORGE OTERO They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existen...
PAULO COELHO I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Treat your time working like Hell is on your heels and your time off work like you're already in Hea...
COLIN GORMAN Even heaven is hell without you.
JEFF THOMAS Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing f...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing fa...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Let this hell be our heaven.
RICHARD MATHESON No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate g...
RICHELLE MEAD All that damn therapy you made me go through — and sometimes, Dad, it takes going through hell to ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN Love: A season's pass on the shuttle between heaven and hell
DON DICKERMAN Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.
WILLIAM MORRIS There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth.
ANTON LAVEY Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven
JOHN DONNE What if heaven or hell have nothing to do with circumstances bestowed upon you and everything with t...
RENATE VULLINGS We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually clo...
JOHN MCGAHERN We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, hea...
STEVE TURNER Heaven is exactly where you are, hell is exactly where you are, now tell me exactly where you are.
VIKRANT PARSAI It is better to reenter hell and become an angel, than to remain in heaven and become a demon.
VICTOR HUGO It's the difference between heaven and hell.
BEN BAGDIKIAN I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose
ELINOR WYLIE You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.
MARILYN MANSON Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
LAURENCE HOPE Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Heaven is empty and hell is full, wait for me I am also coming there.
VIKRANT PARSAI You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven wa...
TERRY PRATCHETT The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss...
POPE GREGORY I Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to de...
JOHN MILTON A road to hell is wide, beautiful, attractive and easy. A road to heaven is narrow, full of bumps an...
WOHI PURANA Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if...
HUGH HOPPER Sometimes you have to raise a little hell to get some heaven.
JOE MADISON It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
EDWARD ALBEE That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
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