Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Jules RenardTag: heaven existentialism paradise
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.'
'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
Tag: humor women sarcasm paradise escape eve american-women lord-henry
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
André BretonTag: paradise surrealism
The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
Rebecca SolnitThis is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.
Rebecca SolnitA fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Thomas FullerTag: wisdom hell paradise fool
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten TroostTag: happiness contentment travel paradise escapism wanderlust
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 ThoreauTag: think paradise atmosphere breathe head-in-the-clouds
Only add
Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith;
Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love,
By name to come called charity, the soul
Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess
A paradise within thee, happier far.
Nobody is fully ready for paradise. That is why
'the kingdom come' will be like thief in the night.
Tag: paradise kingdom-come no-readiness thief-at-night
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