#paradise

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ↗

— Doug Larson

#none #opulence #paradise #telephone #three

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ↗

— Arthur Miller

#action #any #begins #choice #choose

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

— Toni Morrison

#because #been #intellectual #mentioned #paradise

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

#only #out #paradise #recollection #turned

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

— William Penn

#does #end #good #in the end #neither

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

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

I don't like Paradise, As they probably don't have obsessions there. ↗

— Alda Merini

#heaven #materialism #paradise #possessions #afterlife

The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#birds #clouds #prague #sunset #tropical-paradise

A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#love #paradise #poetry #love