Paradisaical Quotes & Sayings

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's. — Simon Beckett

I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,
Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, of dark Maenefa the mountain;
A cusp still clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him, entangled him, not quite utterly.
This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily,
Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, eyelid and eyelid of slumber. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Many of the people I work with that are half my age complain that they feel tired all the time. I tell them: 'Look at what you're eating, how much you are exercising, and how much sleep you are getting.' — David H. Murdock

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. — Alice Hamilton

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others. — Steve Maraboli

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. — Ben Hecht

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way. — Jack Canfield

It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose. — Tom Robbins

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. — Tate Taylor