#paradise

The only paradise is paradise lost. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#only #paradise

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#gone #government #governments #interests #other

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#book #down #hard #lost #once

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#discontent #dogs #evil #jealousy #know

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#could #desired #few #happiness #large

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ↗

— George Santayana

#eccentricity #graphic #graphic design #heresy #hobbies

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#good #paradise #philosophy #love

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#nature #paradise #love