Quotes About Paradise

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and discovered that replicas of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise

What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth. It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach Paradise, man must pass through Inferno.

A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

Life is like walking through paradise with peas in your shoes.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

Vala] provides a profound analysis of man's limitations but no hint of escape from the prison - no suggestion that it is conceiving of the world as a prison that makes it a prison, that the key to the Gates of Paradise is in the mind.

Every object that is loved forms the center of a paradise.

Guidance," says Ibn Arabi, "is to be led to bewilderment. Then you will know that the whole affair is bewilderment, that bewilderment is agitation and movement, and movement is life. There is no rest, no death, only existence, nothing of nonexistence."55 So it continues for all eternity. In reality, it is this bewilderment that allows the Sufis to taste already in this world the never-ending bliss of paradise.

Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don't mean it's a myth.

Eden is not the thing we seek. It is the thing we cannot find.

Does it not seem strange, hatred and bloodshed and all the horrors of war- and there simply Paradise, sunshine and flowers and peace.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Do you think i might be fool enough to run away from heaven if i get there?

There is a paradise, and all true artists work to the glory of its existence, even if they do not always believe with conventional or organised faith.

Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.

Four years later, the comparison worked in the opposite direction: after having looted the watches, the jewelry, the clothes from all of Eastern Europe, the Soviet soldier returned grumbling to the USSR, astonished at the comfort of the non-Communist countries and disgusted with his "paradise" of wooden spoons, tattered dresses, and muddy excrement stretching around his house-barracks.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Death was sweetened for the martyrs by the promise of 72 virgins waiting in paradise. She had researched the 72 virgins. The number wasn't actually in the Quran but in the Hadith 2687, collected in the Book of Sunan. The Quran, in Sura 56, was vague on the point. And theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls … A new analysis translated houris from the Aramaic dialect Syriac as "white raisins", which put everything in a very different light.

I'm not saying we'll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure.