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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.


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My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO No heaven will not ever Heaven be Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN People look for heaven in the sky, when they can find it on earth.
M.W. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what arc...
BEN NICHOLSON If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
CHINESE PROVERB No matter how much soul searching you do unless you do it with truth; you will never find your soul....
N. S. COLE No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
C.G. JUNG There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
WALT WHITMAN No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is ...
FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through mus...
BOW WOW Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find...
ELLEN DEGENERES A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fo...
DALTON TRUMBO Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what ...
EMMANUEL MACRON Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just an...
JOHN LYDON The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
CHINESE PROVERB Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
ANNE RICE I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
LIZA MINNELLI Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness ha...
THOMAS HARDY The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice alway...
MORIHEI UESHIBA Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more f...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see ...
JEANNE MOREAU I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
TERRY PRATCHETT It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you ...
PAUL AUSTER My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
DANIEL CORMIER My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the...
JEANNE MOREAU We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can&...
DIMITAR SASSELOV No chains can bind it, and no cell enclose:Swifter than light, it flies from pole to pole,And, in a ...
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then th...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveli...
THOMAS HARDY There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its childr...
NELSON MANDELA I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place b...
ANSELM KIEFER It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to lif...
ROSA LUXEMBURG There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know tha...
HOLLY HUNTER The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can se...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The staircase is my favorite thing in the house because it brings the light through. It's very sculp...
HEATHER FAULDING Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want...
CORY BOOKER On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
JULES RENARD On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it
JULES RENARD My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, the...
JOHN COLTRANE Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not abo...
LISA RINNA I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life...
JOHN OLIVER If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or...
JASON KIDD I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth
LIZA MINNELLI I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to joke...
CAROL BURNETT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MORE He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
SHERMAN ALEXIE No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My ...
OLESYA RULIN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Bei...
KELLY ROWLAND It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
RIVER PHOENIX If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, ...
WILL CARLETON There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea ho...
BRUCE VILANCH You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your sou...
MARIE STOPES With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough i...
CHARLIE COX There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go...
RUSSELL WESTBROOK I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's thi...
DAN LEVITAN Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth i...
XUN KUANG To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also asha...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted....
VANILLA ICE You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can unders...
HOLLY HUNTER There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth.
ANTON LAVEY My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That'...
DAVID MORRELL No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.
AMIT RAY You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a...
DIANE ENGLISH No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the...
FRANK STELLA I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the ...
JOHN MUIR You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league ump...
DOUG HARVEY I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed t...
ZOE WANAMAKER There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not g...
FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it...
VANESSA MAE I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there&#...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess...
MARGARET ATWOOD I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
PETER O'TOOLE That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be abl...
ZIG ZIGLAR Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. A...
CARRIE NUGENT You can't go wrong with pizza, unless it's terrible pizza.
ANDY KINDLER I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
MAX LUCADO I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It&...
DAVID BLAINE

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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculp...
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Genius is eternal patience.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore t...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTTI I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as scien...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern societ...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid d...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the specta...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern so...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Patience is eternal genius
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
n...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to en...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI