Paradise Quotes - Page 27

• How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

  Thomas Watson

  Jobs, Broken, Overcoming

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.39, Scripture Truth

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• If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Brother, Knowledge, Men

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• Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.

  John Adams

  Religious, Book, Law

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.3, Penguin

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• I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

  Christian Louboutin

  Color, Bird, Way

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• Paradise is always where love dwells.

  Jean Paul

  Love, Romantic Inspirational, Romantic Passionate

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• I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Years, Names, Might

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.10, Prestwick House Inc

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• We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Servant Of God, Order, Justice

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• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

  Eric Weiner

  Real, Biblical, Garden

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• You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

  Rick Riordan

  Years, Labyrinth, Stuff

  "The Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Nature

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.147, University of Arizona Press

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• Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Government, Dresses

  Common Sense (1776)

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• She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

  J. D. Salinger

  Exclamation Points, Observation, Exclamation

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.

  Rob Brezsny

  Inspirational, Giving, Heaven

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• Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

  Georg Buchner

  Revolution, Germany, Cadavers

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

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• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  Fanny Burney

  Pain, Disappointment, Reality

  Fanny Burney (2011). “Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World”, p.22, The Floating Press

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• The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

  Gay Talese

  Country, Poodles, Parks

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• Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.

  Ishmael Reed

  Morning, Views, Media

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

  Bell Hooks

  Home, Angel, Destiny

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• In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Doe, Causes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, May, Might

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

  Franz Kafka

  Luck, Pieces, Expulsion

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

  Franz Kafka

  Pet, Firsts, Adam

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Law, Tyrants, Republic

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Needs, Sentimental

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• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Democracy, Offers, Tombs

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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