Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise-.
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise. ' I was the happiest with that one.
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.
God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!
To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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.
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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.
Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.