William Wordsworth Quotes

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

It's important to stay normal and live in the real world. I know this is where you find happiness.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.