John Milton book Paradise Lost
i.254-255
Paradise Lost (1667)
Variant: The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Source: Paradise Lost: Books 1-2
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
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Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves
The Four Loves (1960)
Context: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: Dr. Faustus
“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido
The Art of Peace (1992)
Context: One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
On his blog, talking about genre http://www.danielabraham.com/?p=160 <br class="br">Context: I think that the successful genres of a particular period are reflections of the needs and thoughts and social struggles of that time. When you see a bunch of similar projects meeting with success, you’ve found a place in the social landscape where a particular story (or moral or scenario) speaks to readers. You’ve found a place where the things that stories offer are most needed.<br>And since the thing that stories most often offer is comfort, you’ve found someplace rich with anxiety and uncertainty. (That’s what I meant when I said to Melinda Snodgrass that genre is where fears pool.)
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 19
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Tavis Smiley Show, PBS http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200904/20090427_prince.html (April 27, 2009).