Paradise Quotes - Page 17

• The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Love Is, Hands

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11.-12. Miscellany”

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• Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Doors, Paradise On Earth, Contentment

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• Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

  Jessamyn West

  Fool, Chance, Refuse

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Bats, Giants

  J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”

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• If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

  Thom Yorke

  Would Be, World, If I Could

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• Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Fool, Envious

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Music, Garden, Soul

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• When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paris

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

  William Morris

  Forgiveness, Sea, Bliss

  William Morris (1871). “The Earthly Paradise: A Poem”, p.2

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• The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

  Dee Brown

  America, East, Earth

  Dee Brown (1970). “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”

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• The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

  Arthur Koestler

  Past, Atheism, Age

  Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Ignasio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer (1965). “the god that failed”

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• I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Flames, Color, Sky

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.242, Vintage

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• Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Children, Book

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• Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

  Henry Mitchell

  Confused, Garden, Religion

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.1, Indiana University Press

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• What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

  Andrew Bird

  Museums, Bird, Fields

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

  Francis Thompson

  Men, Labels, May

  'A Judgement in Heaven' (1913) epilogue

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• How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Land, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, Рипол Классик

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• The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

  Plato

  Forever, Soul, Arriving

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• Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Love Is, Rehearsal

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• My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

  John Piper

  Pain, Order, Earth

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• I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

  Jack London

  Life, Spiritual, Sweet

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

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• Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the
  prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Eye, Land, Heaven

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• Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Remembrance, Driven

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• Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Native American

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.26, Indiana University Press

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• The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Peace, Heart, Mean

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