Sun Ra Quotes

Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Heaven

• I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Beginning

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Nature

• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heaven

• But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Heaven

• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Tree

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• For the kingdom of heaven is with us today.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Today
  • Heaven

• ...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Mind
  • Heaven

• All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• Whatever's lost, it first was won; We will not struggle nor impugn. Perhaps the cup was broken here, That Heaven's new wine might show more clear. I praise Thee while my days go on.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Lost
  • Heaven
  • Struggle

• Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Country
  • Money
  • Romantic

• I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Good
  • Live

• Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Failure

• Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Heaven