“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven." by George Bernard Shaw?
George Bernard Shaw photo
George Bernard Shaw 413
Irish playwright 1856–1950

Related quotes

Henry Hart Milman photo

“Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”

Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) English historian and churchman

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 180.

Aleksandr Pushkin photo

“Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.”

Source: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 2, st. 31.

Lafcadio Hearn photo

“A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.”

Richard Crashaw (1612–1649) British writer

In Praise of Lessius’s Rule of Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Josemaría Escrivá photo

“I am every day more convinced that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth.”

Josemaría Escrivá (1902–1975) Spanish theologian

#1005
The Forge (1987)

Sarvajna photo

“Offering food [to the hungry], telling the truth and putting others above oneself is a happy way to heaven.”

Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher

Tripadis

Aldo Leopold photo

“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 199.

Prevale photo

“Women are stars, a gift from heaven. And, when they are happy, they shine with their own light, intense and vital.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le donne sono stelle, un dono del cielo. E, quando sono felici, brillano di una luce propria, intensa e vitale.
Source: prevale.net

Jonathan Haidt photo

“The lesson Buddha and Marcus Aurelius had taught centuries earlier: "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."”

Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005), p. 25.

Related topics