#paradise

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

So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So easily destroy'd, and still destroys, In those who, when they may, accept not grace. ↗

— John Milton

#death

She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#hell #inspirational #josephine-angelini #love #paradise

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#obeys #paradise #petty #politician #republic

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#descriptions #go #i #make #paradise

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#i #i am #look #me #paradise

Move to California. Malibu is paradise. ↗

— David Geffen

#malibu #move #paradise

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#heaven #heir #holiness #holy #made

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#simone-elkeles #dreams