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I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.
Bell Hooks
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is preferable to be miserable and face the truth than to be content in an illusory bliss.
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The path to paradise begins in hell.
Dante Alighieri
'The gateway to bliss lies amidst anguish.'
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Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
Ibn Arabi
Your inner being yearns for its utopia.
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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
William Blake
'Verse, Artistry & Melody, the three Potencies in humanity of conversing with Heaven, which the deluge did not erase.'
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In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.
Omar Khayyam
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Abu Bakr
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In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.
Cesare Borgia
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Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
Angelus Silesius
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In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.
Ibn Taymiyyah
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Paradise is always where love dwells.
Jean Paul
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Alexander Pope
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Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise
Pope Pius X
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Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Life - it's not paradise, you do not have to be perfect.
Gia Carangi
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
John Milton
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I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
Henning Mankell
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Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.
Ibn Majah
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If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.
Muhammad
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Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive.
David Wolfe
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The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.
Paul of the Cross
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
Toni Morrison
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Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.
Ephrem the Syrian
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Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.
Gregg Easterbrook
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To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
Rajneesh
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
Jim Morrison
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Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.
Jean Klein
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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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.
St. Jerome
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
Alain Badiou
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Wallace Stegner
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It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.
Brother Lawrence
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
Elbert Hubbard
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Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
Ruby Dee
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
Anais Nin
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To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.
John Winthrop
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To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
Rajneesh
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I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.
Camillus de Lellis
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire