Paradise quotes
332 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created."
"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."
"The path to paradise begins in hell."
"Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away."
"In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls."
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"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go."
"Paradise is always where love dwells."
"If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise."
"Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive."
"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in."
"A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world."
"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."
"Cheeseburger in paradise!"
"If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back."
"It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus."
"Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love."
"To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go."
"Paradise is for those who make paradise."
"Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts."
"There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return."
"Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand."
"Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise."
"It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality."
"Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent."
"What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?"
