Paradise Quotes - Page 29

• People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

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• Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void.

  Thomas Adams

  Believe, Cities, Rivers

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• The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

  Thomas Traherne

  Fear, Men, Mirrors

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

  Stevie Smith

  Soul, Peculiar, Tolls

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.297, Faber & Faber

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• The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheism, World

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• No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.
  Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

  David Hilbert

  Development, Creation, Mathematics

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• The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humanity, Hell, Mankind

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• We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Together Again, Doe

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• The imperfect is our paradise.
  Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
  Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
  Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lying, Perfection, Sound

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.218, Vintage

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• But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Wise, Strong, Brave

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• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Regret, Night, People

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

  Anneli Rufus

  Teacher, Islands, Shy

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• A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

  Jim Morrison

  Men, Other Worlds, Fool

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• When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Apples, Dumb, Dumb Women

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.133, Macmillan

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• The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Battle, Glimpse

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• It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Drunk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

  Willy Russell

  Tickets, Seasons, Ifs

  Willy Russell (2016). “Willy Russell Plays: 2: Blood Brothers; Our Day Out - The Musical; Shirley Valentine; John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

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• That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.

  Kevin Hearne

  Jealous, Beer

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three”, p.51, Del Rey

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• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  May, Today, Fool

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

  Greg Mortenson

  Appreciate, Childhood, Muppet Show

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.19, Penguin

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• It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I thnk, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to- that I loved you, and you loved me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Moving, Love You

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• Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.

  Marlo Morgan

  Mean, Self Worth, Technology

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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