“Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression… — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
“It is said that the gates of paradise can only be opened by the tears of those left behind. I do not… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
“My father also told me that people had always suffered from being tied to the ground, from not being able to detach… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“One thing about Islam is that paradise always beckons. Life is oriented toward the afterlife. Whatever pleasures you miss out on in… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors— Of Chambers as the Cedars— Impregnable of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have held and hold souls to be immortal… Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taymiyyah, may… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing!… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in… — Adrienne von Speyr Copy Share Image
You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order… — Gustave Thibon Copy Share Image
“Quaint stone cottages lined the cobblestone streets, and an immense ocean lay to the far right, dozens of pirate-like ships riding its… — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there was the earth, formless and empty. Darkness hung over the surface of the deep. And then there was… — S.M. Reine Copy Share Image
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a… — El-P Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image