How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a moment he pushed aside the thought of money. From time to time the dark water beside them rippled audibly, as if a tiny fish had come to the surface for an instant and then darted beneath. It was in peaceful moments such as this, his father had said, that men were given to know just a little of what paradise was like, so that they might yearn for it with all their soul,and strive during their time on earth to be worthy of going there.

Paul Bowles

Stichwörter: yearning paradise



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Is this Paradise?'
'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: paradise taxes



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A soldier came to Hakuin and asked "Is there really a paradise and a hell?"
"Who are you?" inquired Hakuin.

"I am a samurai," the warrior replied.

"You, a samurai!" exclaimed Hakuin. "What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that of a beggar!"

The soldier became so angry that he began to draw his sword, but Hakuin continued. "So you have a sword! Your weapon is probably as dull as your head!"

As the soldier drew his sword Hakuin remarked "Here open the gates of hell!"

At these words, the samurai, perceiving the discipline of the master, sheathed his sword and bowed.

"Here open the gates of paradise," said Hakuin

Hakuin Ekaku

Stichwörter: inspirational paradise warrior



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Its ghetto paradise for some and hell on earth for others!

Habeeb Akande

Stichwörter: paradise hell-on-earth ghetto tribulation anarchy-a-love-story



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Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Stichwörter: paradise



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

Dan Brown

Stichwörter: death paradise inferno birth



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Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d’épouvantable dans le suicide. Les chutes d’une multitude de gens sont sans danger, comme celles des enfants qui tombent de trop bas pour se blesser; mais quand un grand homme se brise, il doit venir de bien haut, s’être élevé jusqu’aux cieux, avoir entrevu quelque paradis inaccessible. Implacables doivent être les ouragans qui le forcent à demander la paix de l’âme à la bouche d’un pistolet… Chaque suicide est un poème sublime de mélancolie.

Honoré de Balzac

Stichwörter: suicide paradise poésie



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Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

Raquel Cepeda

Stichwörter: home spirituality paradise being suburbia state-of-being



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I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.

Raquel Cepeda

Stichwörter: family identity home loneliness alone isolation paradise coming-of-age invisibility paraiso transnational



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A glimpse
of my feathers.
Show too much and they’ll tear you apart
Bird of Paradise
Born in the trenches
Facing the mouth of a gun.

Emily Bird

Stichwörter: paradise guns birds



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