Paradise Quotes - Page 13

• To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

  John Winthrop

  Soul, Beloved

  John Winthrop, Richard S. Dunn, Laetitia Yeandle (1996). “The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

  Brad Warner

  Believe, Somewhere Else, Choices

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao, all things would be in harmony. The world would become a paradise. All people would be at peace, and the law would be written in their hearts. When you have names and forms, know that they are provisional. When you have institutions, know where their functions should end. Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger. All things end in the Tao as rivers flow into the sea.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Heart, Men

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• The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive solution to the energy needs of the world. ... The real issue is whether their blueprints will work in the real world and not only in a "technological paradise."... Opponents of fission energy point out a number of differences between the real world and the "technological paradise." ... No acts of God can be permitted.

  Hannes Alfven

  Real, Science, Differences

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• My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean the glorifying way we look at Nature. Nature, which in all its forms is always against us, because it knows no meaning, no pity, no sympathy, because it knows nothing and is absolutely mindless, the total antithesis of ourselves.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Mean, Way

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Feb 26, 2016

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• To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Thinking, Giving

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

  John Smith

  Spiritual, Garden, Hunting

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• The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Longing

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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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• The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Writing, Venus De Milo, Creative

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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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• As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Cannes Film Festival, Directors, Fans

  "An Interview With South Korea’s Box Office Champ Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Jon Herskovitz, blogs.reuters.com. June 15, 2009.

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• For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Race, Blood

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• Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us. When God bade mankind be fruitful and multiply, Doctor, He was thinking of the ugly as well as of the beautiful. I am convinced I might add, that the aesthetic criterion does not come from God but from the devil. In paradise no distinction was made between ugliness and beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

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• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  John Milton

  Joy, Fleeting, Woe

  1665 Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.741-2.

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• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

  Albert Camus

  Earth, Gender, Knows

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• O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

  John Milton

  Sweet, Art, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 896

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• When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

  Henri Matisse

  Freedom, Bored, Everyday

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• Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

  James Russell Lowell

  Islands, Promise, Religion

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.109

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• Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Work, Occupation, Pleasure

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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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• 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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