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• The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people’s and I really have no right to whine at all.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Pain, Play, People

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• „Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.

  Meg Cabot

  Believe, Waiting, Heaven

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

  Mark Twain

  Doors, Closing

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• If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Believe, Politics

  Song: Where Are You Tonight?, 1978

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• A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Hurt, Circles

  "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.

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• Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

  Paula McLain

  Wall, Real, Garden

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• Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

  Catherine Anderson

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Men

  Catherine Anderson (2007). “Phantom Waltz”, p.76, Penguin

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• How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Laughing, Scott Fitzgerald

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

  David Levithan

  Order, Rivers, Sides

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.68, Penguin

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• But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Silly, Mean, Wind

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• Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

  Francine Rivers

  Men, Way, Faults

  Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.442, Lion Fiction

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• There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Guy, Thieves

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• wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

  Wallace Stegner

  Evil Love, Evil

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• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, War

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

  Mark Doty

  Reading, Broken, Kind

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• Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

  John Jewel

  Angel, Voice, Perfect

  John Jewel (2008). “The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The Fourth Portion”, p.1162, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mean, Science, Math

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

  Greg Laurie

  Country, Jesus, Cities

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• My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Moving, Humble

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• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Regret, Food, Eggs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

  Giordano Bruno

  Soul, Catholic, Body

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• My beloved soul,
  having awakened at last into My Peace,
  you can return consciously and
  completely to your own Original Source.
  As this homecoming fills you
  with in expressible joy
  it pervades Allah Most High
  with profound delight as well
  (You will) experience the perfect union
  with Love that is My highest Paradise.

  Lex Hixon

  Rest In Peace, Profound, Perfect

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• The wine they drink in Paradise
  They make in Haute Lorraine.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wine, Drink, Lorraine

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Cider Song”

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