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“We were originally naked in the garden of paradise, "but unashamed." After the serpent of forced assimilation, "we were taught shame upon our natural beauty.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“GIFT A TIME...
SEED A MAP...
TURN A KEY...
WHORL A RING...”
― Jonathan McKinney

“America is the paradise for psychiatrists.”
― Richard Huelsenbeck, Memoirs of a Dada Drummer

“The world would have become Jannat if Instagram users would have followed 10% of what they propagate in reels and stories.”
― Mujahid Mughal

“Coming home, it feels like paradise at last..the incommunicable longing, the one that existed before even we were born, the longing that swelled into life itself, the only desire that has deeply possessed the soul, for it is the beginning, the ending, and all the in-betweens....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“If you want a little piece of paradise, believe in God.
But if you want to conquer the world, believe in yourself
because God has already given you everything you need to win.”
― Augusto Branco

“I Can Only Imagine
A special Eulogy to my adorable Mother

I can only imagine
How you may have felt
That very day you left
Not knowing how your children would fend for themselves
Thank God He made provision for them

I can only imagine
The questions you had
A few hours before you departed
From wondering when you would take your last breath
To trying to understand how your loved ones would react

I can only imagine
That unforgettable day
When we witnessed your transition to Heaven
I still wonder how you went
But I remember your peaceful smile
Even as you steadily waved goodbye

I can only imagine
The place where you are now
Filled with nothing but joy
As you forget the sorrow of this world
While you admire the beauty of Paradise
I can only imagine!”
― Gift Gugu Mona, From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman

“I Can Only Imagine
A special Eulogy to my adorable Mother

I can only imagine
How you may have felt
That very day you left
Not knowing how your children would fend for themselves
Thank God He made provision for them

I can only imagine
The questions you had
A few hours before you departed
From wondering when you would take your last breath
To trying to understand how your loved ones would react

I can only imagine
That unforgettable day
When we witnessed your transition to Heaven
I still wonder how you went
But I remember your peaceful smile
Even as you steadily waved goodbye

I can only imagine
The place where you are now
Filled with nothing but joy
As you forget the sorrow of this world
While you admire the beauty of Paradise

I can only imagine!”
― Gift Gugu Mona, From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman

“And every time I've set out to meet life, I've met and embraced death. I've collected all my skeletons and bones from each of those moments and have stored them inside the closet that I own. The bones that the death wouldn't touch. And I guess now I have enough of them with me to build a bridge to the paradise in which life lives.”
― Akshay Vasu, Reflections in a Shattered Mirror

“There began all the things human beings hold sacred, which can only come from difficulty, struggle, and the growing idealization of bliss and perfection, which can only flourish in the mind when paradise is utterly lost.”
― Anne Rice, Taltos

“With starry eyes we forget what is literally the oldest trick in The Book: that the very first 'liberal' was one of deception - a snake in the Garden - and he corrupted paradise.”
― Criss Jami

“The fool thinks he will never be bored in his paradise! However, what bores people is actually getting stuck in the same place, in the same things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Maybe there was more waiting for you beyond the veil—eternal paradise even—but maybe not. Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“The greatest kingdom of all time is the kingdom of heaven.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The lost paradises are the only true ones not because, in retrospect, the past joy seems more beautiful than it really was, but because remembrance alone provides the joy without the anxiety over its passing and thus gives it an otherwise impossible duration. Time loses its power when remembrance redeems the past.”
― Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization

“Paradise Isle by Stewart Stafford

In superstitious guidance,
I discovered your shallows,
Ingénues' on naked dunes,
Edenites of Paradise Isle.

Tragedy and chance are but pirates;
One welcome, both shocking rogues,
Am I a castaway or a sleepwalker?
Let motivations as explorers gather.

Leaving footprints only we can see,
The wet sand, a camouflage ally,
We quit the beach and head inland,
As crabs in shade to the waterline crawl.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“As daylight sinks, a new light reveals--the light of the otherworld where there is no hatred, no prejudice, no torment--only an utter delight, a euphoria, a sense of paradise..”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“There is no paradise like prayer.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Praying is a perfect act.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I do have a single tale. It is a story of love found and love lost – of ambition and madness – of paradise and torment.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“It is a paradise. It is a sanctuary. It is where the pained come to heal in peace and solitude.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“Islam tends its adherents down the garden path to the plentiful paradise.”
― BS Murthy

“Islam tends its adherents down the garden path to plentiful paradise.”
― BS Murthy

“Thus the Utopia of terrestrial paradise implies an absolute humanity within the transitory relations of terrestrial history. But there is no room in terrestrial reality, by its nature strictly confined and limited, for an absolute life. Yet the Utopia theory asserts that what has been impossible until now will not be so always, that an absolute and conclusive state will sooner or later crown historical relations. It affirms, not a transition from limited historical relations to some other plane of being, to some fourth dimension commensurable with the closed three dimensional world, but a fourth dimension of absolute life within the very framework of three-dimensional space. In this lie its fundamental metaphysical antithesis and essential instability, instead of seeing absolute life as the transition from terrestrial to, celestial history, it presupposes an ultimate solution of human destiny within the framework of terrestrial relations, a final integration of the three-dimensional world. It desires to humanize that absolute perfection and beatitude which can only be attained in the celestial reality and only contained in the fourth dimension.”
― Nicolas Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

“New Zealand, is paradise found.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Australia, is paradise found.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“America, is paradise found.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Ireland, is paradise found.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Fiji, is paradise found.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Japan, is paradise found.”
― Anthony T. Hincks