“Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
“Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
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