Quotes About Bliss

As John Welwood reminds us in Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love, "dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love—which is to transform us.

Are you selling something?" "Only happiness.

Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny.

perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?

I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. Charlotte Brontë.

We have a gift beyond measure, the daily bliss of being alive. Forced by our disease to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, like any woman who gives birth, we get to experience the sacredness of life.

Summer was a forever season, and held no pain.

No se esconda cuando algo le produzca placer.

Ce n'était pas un baiser, c'était… le paradis.

This was an act of love, pure and simple. And by taking her so slowly and gently, Merrick was wiping away all the earlier, bad memories she had of this act. Wiping them away and replacing them with beautiful memories, feelings of love and trust instead of hurt and terror and betrayal. There was no room for bad emotions here--there was only the bliss of being one with her man and it was the best feeling Elise had ever known.

Peace, it's wonderful.

C'è in tutti noi un qualcosa che somiglia alla letizia.

La inconciencia o no conciencia es la condición sine qua non para la felicidad.

Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won't quit. I can't remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that's for sure.

Fun not shared is not fun. You can derive great pleasure alone, enjoy yourself enormously, experience bliss, but fun requires someone else, like a friend or a dog.

As for that which is commonly called love in novels and in life, though capable of affording a very exquisite bliss in its little season, it is a matter with which mere puberty and the bloom of physical life has so much to do, that except in the way of regulation (which is anything but an easy matter), it does not come under the category of morals at all.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Everything has its own torture chamber, but also its own paradise.

Awareness and consciousness are suddenly clear and expansive, undisturbed, and undivided by thought. The experience may be accompanied by great insight, ecstatic bliss, or a mystical infusion of light, love, and vision.

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Pleasure was the color of the time.

Perhaps we may be, for a time, blissfully ignorant or happily deceived, and in those ways, despite all of the difficulties that endanger us, we may temporarily avoid being especially upset or disturbed. In the end, however, our ignorance and our false beliefs are likely just to make our circumstances worse.