Paradise Quotes - Page 23

• Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
  I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

  Jim Steinman

  Lonely, Dark, Night

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• I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

  Ray Conniff

  Broadway, Restaurants, Sat

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• Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.

  Ibn Majah

  Mother, Feet

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• Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

  Abu Hanifa

  Wisdom, Islamic, Wrath

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• Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Hell, States

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• LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Garden, Heaven

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• Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.

  Umberto Eco

  Religious, Hero, Thinking

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• Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

  Thomas de Quincey

  Keys, Drug, Subtle

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination

  Frederick William Faber

  Jesus, Blessed, Angel

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

  Amy Waldman

  Garden, Eden, All The Best

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• Love is a taste of paradise.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Love, Love Is, Taste

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• If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Love, Wind, People

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• If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Flower, Looks, Gone

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• The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!

  Leon Morris

  Jesus, Easter, Heaven

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• In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophy, Real, Thinking

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• If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How little pride your ancestors will have in you in this world and the next if you do no good! All men are children of Adam whom Allah created by His own Hands, giving him paradise for a dwelling place and letting His angels bow down before him. But how little is the advantage from this since all the vices dwell in mankind and all the wicked impious people are among their number.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Children, Islamic

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• What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

  Marcel Proust

  Philosophical, Lost

  Marcel Proust (1970). “Time regained”

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• I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Believe, Moving

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.114, Gibbs Smith

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• I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Nice, World

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• I've been to paradise. But I've never been to me.

  Maureen McGovern

  Love, Dream

  "Absolutely Fabulous: The End". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't care how you get there. And if you aren't going to be thinking about it in paradise, then don't worry about it now.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Thinking, Illumination

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• An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

  Peter Porter

  Art, Rumours, Gates

  Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.

  John Evelyn

  Men, Garden, Long

  John Evelyn, William Upcott (1825). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.430, London : H. Colburn

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