#paradise

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. ↗

— John Dyer

#content #cornwall #discovered #explore #france

By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#heart #life #memory #paradise #life

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels. ↗

— Henry Miller

#life #paradise #spain #life

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. ↗

— John Milton

#fall-of-man #paradise-lost #nature

In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#hell #paradise #religion #soul #religion

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#deal #kindness #learn #paradise #people

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#find #him #indulges #paradise #paths

Paradise is open to all kind hearts. ↗

— Pierre Jean de Beranger

#kind #open #paradise

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#bird #could #earth #fish #fly

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. ↗

— Dee Brown

#comprehend #could #destroy #determined #earth