Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
Anne Bancroft
Related The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, a... ADOLF HITLER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM When one sees what happens in the world between the religions, the different religions - killing eac... OMAR SHARIF The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can b... MARIA MITCHELL Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The nice thing about paradise is that through hard work and daily discipline it can be yours... JOHN LEACH I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on natur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY If you allow yourself to experience the present moment, you will discover that it does not get bette... VICTOR SHAMAS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Life is not always a stigma, but the choices you make in your life is what defines your future, whic... ANONYMOUS Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled. JEAN PAUL RICHTER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. JEAN PAUL The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you ... STEVE SABOL The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. BELL HOOKS Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim" BRING ME THE HORIZON Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. JEAN PAUL RICHTER Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. JEAN PAUL RICHTER Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. JEAN PAUL She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Hell is when we look back during the fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to ... PAULO COELHO The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death i... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death i... AYAAN HIRSI ALI I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like t... FREI OTTO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I’m going to be thrown out of Paradise tomorrow, Beatrice. Our only hope is that you find me after... SYLVAIN REYNARD We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult,... J. A. PRIMO DE RIVERA It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The only paradise is paradise lost. MARCEL PROUST The only paradise is paradise lost MARCEL PROUST Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Life is short, and it is here to be lived. KATE WINSLET The death of one will bring sorrow to my soul, but the death of 100? That will only make me think ab... 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If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai... LANA M. H. WILDER If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything? RANDY PAUSCH The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so... EMILE M. CIORAN Driving through the road called hope is the only route that can bring all the goodies of life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE I can only hope that the life i leave, will lead to the ones that were blessed from the life i lived... STUART R. PREWITT To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO To be true to yourself is the only way to break free from the lie you live. Remember, Living a lie i... ROSA M. BETANCES The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yours... ELIZABETH GILBERT The past could never be as beautiful as the future, God is clearing the path for an everlasting para... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... 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