Best 393 quotes in «paradise quotes» category

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss

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

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

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.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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

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

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

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.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!