Paradise Quotes - Page 37

• It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Thinking, Feelings

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

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• It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

  Rebecca Mader

  Blessing, People, Friendly

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

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• Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sloth, Laziness

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Keys, Heaven

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• A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Generations, Chaste

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Feet, Firsts

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise

  Richard Gerber

  Cost, Burden, Ifs

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• People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eye, Men, People

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.546, Psychology Press

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• God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Giving, Good Man

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1983). “Freedom Or Death: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Blessed the man that hath visited `Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `Akká. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Spring, Blessed, Men

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• First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander in dry places." Thirst drives man mad, and the devil himself is mad with a kind of thirst for his own lost excellence--lost because he has immured himself in it and closed out everything else. So the man who wanders into the desert to be himself must take care that he does not go mad and become the servant of the one who dwells there in a sterile paradise of emptiness and rage.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Men, Egypt

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.21, Macmillan

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• God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Religion, Atheism

  "In God We Trust". Essay by Salman Rushdie, 1985.

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• Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Library, Kind

  "The Maker. Poem of the Gifts". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.

  Ann Voskamp

  Rain, Blessed, Fall

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• Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

  Peg Bracken

  Thinking, People, Cheese

  1960 The I Hate to Cook Book, ch.9.

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• This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

  Alfred Noyes

  Book, Eye, Soul

  Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”

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• The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

  Garrison Keillor

  Care, Problem, Week

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• Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

  Andrew Marvell

  Two, Share, Wander

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 8

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• The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.

  Robert Holden

  Distance, Recovery, Journey

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Greed, Sake

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Queens, Heaven, Reign

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• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Laughter

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• A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

  William James

  Usual, Inward, Tranquility

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.261, Library of America

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