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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

  Robin Leach

  Class, Culture, Exotic

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

  Mark Salzman

  Hell, Deny, Thee

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• A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

  Richard Aldington

  Common Sense, Earth, Littles

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  Martin Luther

  Exercise, May, Doe

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”

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• Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Ideas, Way, Knows

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• A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

  Byron Katie

  Loss, Earthquakes, Mind

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Disappointment

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• In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Opportunity, Views

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• When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Stories, Kind, Realizing

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

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• Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Mean, Soul, Gold

  Christopher Columbus, Richard Henry Major (1870). “Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World”, p.203

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• I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Character, Thinking, Scott Fitzgerald

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• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Environmental, Progress

  "Big Yellow Taxi" (song) (1969)

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Baby, Sleep, Insomnia

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• We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Love Is, Men, Needs

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1988). “The last temptation of Christ”, Touchstone

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• Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.

  Pat Rodegast

  Wall, Attitude, Mean

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• The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Church, World, Has Beens

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• It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Evil, Fool, Causes

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  George William Russell

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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• Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Competition, Prison, Socialist

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  Matthew Simpson

  Sacrifice, Men, Heaven

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• Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Attitude, Spring, Body

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• Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death

  Georges Brassens

  Death, Uprising, Age

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• If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

  Bonnie Bedelia

  Mean, Italian, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.

  'Little' Jimmy Dickens

  Elephants, Wife, Bird

  Song: May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose

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• The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Views, Hands

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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