Paradise Quotes - Page 3

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

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.

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

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

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.

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

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.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.