Quotes About Paradise

this. It seems to be a reflection, in part, of the order/chaos dichotomy characterizing all of experience, with Paradise serving as habitable order and the serpent playing the role of chaos. The serpent in Eden therefore means

It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).

Lá iniciara Inês sua plantação de chifres e podia afirmar, com pleno conhecimento de causa, existirem condições propícias ao exercício da boa lavoura com seguro penhor de colheita farta. Discretíssimos castelos, bangalôs ocultos entre coqueiros em praias selvagens, com a brisa e o mar, um sonho. Quanto a rapazes, havia cada um!

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within.

Little by little I came to realize the strange irony of events. I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. Others think of a garden or of a palace. There I was, the center, in a way, of nine hundred thousand books in various languages, but I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines.

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

Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.

El Paraíso está aquí; siempre y cuando uno sepa cómo armar los fragmentos.

Paraíso de la tierra Cuyos mágicos jardines Con sus manos de jazmines Cultivó celeste hurí, La salud en tí se encierra En tí mora la alegría En tus sierras nace el dia Y arde el sol de amor por tí.

Leave me in Granada in the middle of paradise where my soul wells with poetry; Leave me until my time comes and I may intone a fitting song. Yes, I want my memorial stone in this land. Granada! Holy place of the glory of Spain, Your mountains are the white tents of pavilions, Your walls are the circle of a vase of flowers, Your plain a Moorish shawl embroidered with colour, Your towers are palm trees that imprison you

All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so.

Here the development has run full cycle. To Guercino's "Even in Arcady, there is death" Fragonard's drawing replies: "Even in death, there may be Arcady.

As Henry Miller realized, "the earth is a Paradise. We don't have to make it a Paradise—it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it."23

Those who think of the Amazon as a Green Hell ," she read in an old book with a tattered spine, " bring only their own fears and prejudices to this amazing land. For whether a place is a hell or a heaven rests in yourself, and those who go with courage and an open mind may find themselves in Paradise.

For whether a place is a heaven or a hell rests in yourself, and those who go with courage may find themselves in paradise.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Id go back to Mauritius in a shot.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Their decision to mainstream Leslie to a "normal" childhood was influenced by their confidence in Glen Ridge as a great place to raise a child. The Fabers knew that Glen Ridge wasn't paradise, but it was, they believed, an exceptionally safe and secure world for a child to explore, even a child who was impaired.

Nobody lived in Eden anymore.