Paradise Quotes - Page 10

• If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, Years, Rivers

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Environmental, Progress

  "Big Yellow Taxi" (song) (1969)

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• A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Feet, Space

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• I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Worried, Not Afraid

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• But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Disappointment

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• Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Home, Land

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on his soul, spoke of when he said: 'Truly, there is a Heaven in this world, [and] whoever does not enter it, will not enter the Heaven of the next world.'
  And in that heaven, complete peace is not something of a moment. It is a state, eternal.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Heart, Heaven

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• Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two rakats after maghrib, two rakats after ishaa, and two rakats before fajr prayer.

  Muhammad

  Prayer, Islamic, Night

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• Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

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• Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sleep, Light, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1322, Delphi Classics

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• In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Eye, Mind

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• The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Space, Bows

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Baby, Sleep, Insomnia

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• You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If you had not listened to the mind... just don't listen to the mind, then you are not in misery; because misery cannot exist without expectations and without hopes. And when misery exists you need more hopes for it, to hide it, to live somehow. Live hopelessly - then you are a righteous man, then you are retired.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Righteous Man, Expectations

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• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Optimistic, Buddhism, Views

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Muslim Faith, Holy Prophet

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• A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot

  Wafa Sultan

  Husband, Feet

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• When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.

  Muhammad

  Blessed, Islamic, Fire

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• Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

  Muhammad

  Positive, God, Islamic

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• Memory revises me.
  Even now a letter
  comes from a place
  I don’t know, from someone
  with my name
  and postmarked years ago,
  while I await
  injunctions from the light
  or the dark;
  I wait for shapeliness
  limned, or dissolution.
  Is paradise due or narrowly missed
  until another thousand years?
  I wait
  in a blue hour
  and faraway noise of hammering,
  and on a page a poem begun, something
  about to be dispersed,
  something about to come into being.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Dark, Light

  Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

  Victor Hugo

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Shadow

  Victor Hugo (1938). “Les Miserables: A Novel”

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• I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Ideas, No Idea

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• South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

  Eliza Lucas

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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