Paradise quotes

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◆ Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.

- Depeche Mode100

◆ Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

- Phillip Brooks99

◆ Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that 'I will lead all of them into nirvana'.

- Buddha99

◆ Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that 'I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?

- Buddha99

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

- William Penn99

◆ Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

- Laurie Anderson99

◆ Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away

- Emily Dickinson99

◆ Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers

- Richard Greenham99

◆ No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies

- Dean Acheson99

◆ I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges99

◆ Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

- Adolf Hitler99

◆ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

- Voltaire99

◆ A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

- Thomas Fuller99

- Buddha99