“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The Rivière Secrète was no longer a secret. Two riverbanks, covered in wild grapevines and Black Willows, had emerged from the muck… — Vivian LeMay Copy Share Image
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also;… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This… — Keiko Nobumoto Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven. Moses, who was Mr.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard Well pleased, but answered not; for now too nigh Th' Archangel stood, and from… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Feathers!" spluttered Sargatanas. "Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Joy is as infectious as any disease. When you see a few people dancing, suddenly you feel your feet are ready. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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![“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic…” quote by Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/roman-payne-1959_advice-for-writers_i-ran-across-an-excerpt-today-in-english_2690369.jpg)
