Paradise Quotes
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
George Bernard Shaw
They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
Helen Keller
...wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Wallace Stegner
If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.
Eliza Lucas
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn
Then might ye see
Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost
And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft
Fly to the rearward of the world far off
Into a limbo large and broad, since called
The paradise of fools.
John Milton
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
Walpola Rahula
The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.
Bernard Lewis
Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
Lao Tzu
