Quotes About Bliss

where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise wrote the poet Thomas Gray.

Fear of death, which in some respects is adaptive in the evolutionary struggle for existence, is maladaptive in warfare. Those cultures that teach an afterlife of bliss for heroes — or even for those who just did what those in authority told them — might gain a competitive advantage.

Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment.

He sat back and drank the really horrible tea the dwarfs made. Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling on bliss. Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that described something that does not make a noise but if it did make a noise would sound just like that. Bliss . It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate.

the more freedom you have, the more happiness you have.

Darkness is always trying to overcome the light and what we know from Advent and from the resurrection is that darkness cannot overcome the light. And that is a truth that can carry you into bliss and hope all the days of your life. (p. 50)

FREEDOM IS THE basis of all happiness. Without freedom, there is no happiness.

Happiness isn't possible without freedom.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

I am a joyful person.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

I've discovered the joys of happiness.

I wasn't—" I began. I didn't—" He began. How charming," V'lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She's on the floor, you're towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I'll kill him.

I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live. I'm Pri-ya again. I always will be with this man.

I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.

He's happy, Yi-yi." I went very still. "He, who?" "The one who danced you into love.

I despised the world because I used to know who I was, and I used to be good, with no bad in me, or at least that's what I thought and there really is a degree of bliss and charmed innocence in ignorance.

When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." – Joseph Campbell

get into something that you love, that you have an aptitude for, and where you're totally happy.

And you know, that's another reason I named her Coco. Because to me, chocolate is about indulging in things that give you pleasure. And what's the point of life if you can't find joy?

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

The boredom you speak of, it is what most of us call happiness.