Quotes About Bliss

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

try to think of God as a vast, infinite, unified field of perfect love—and nothing else. (Equivalent terms would be joy or bliss; in Sanskrit, ananda.) Since very few humans have ever experienced such love, it's almost impossible to imagine. But if God is perfect love, and God created us "in His image," then we must also be perfect love.

Heaven: it's better than a chocolate bar.

Ramana says: "Love is not different from the Self…[in this sense] God is love…. Love itself is the actual form of God…. Call it pure bliss, God, or what you will.

The pre-bite dopamine blast you're now getting is the promise of more bliss, and the post-bite drop in dopamine is, in a way, the breaking of the promise—or, at least, it's a kind of biochemical acknowledgment that there was some overpromising. To the extent that you bought the promise—anticipated greater pleasure than would be delivered by the consumption itself—you have been, if not deluded in the strong sense of that term, at least misled.

Ignorance is bliss was bull. Melody had been ignorant her whole life, and things were far from blissful. It was time to give knowledge is power a try.

they lived happily ever after

They have never known pain

The first Snow, Landor! Rare bliss it was to awaken and to find every tree and rock overrun with snow; to find the snowflakes still spilling like hoarded coins from the sky's cloud-purses.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

It's lovely to see people so happy.

The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cosy chairs, the globes and, best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wader where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

febrile even, but happier than I have been in weeks.

Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

I went home in great delight.

euphoria he felt after

Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance.

Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss'

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live..... the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.