Quotes About Bliss

What an infinity of bliss the possession of your love seemed to me — the future so full of passionate sweet life that my spirit shrank blinded from trying to explore it; I stopped content with the delicious sense of that moment alone.

Thousands of miles lay between me and Europe, mother of all demons. The demons could not reach me here—there were no telegrams, no telephone calls, no letters, no visitors. My liberated psychic forces poured blissfully back to the primeval expanses.

This recognition, that one must give up the retrospective longing which only wants to resuscitate the torpid bliss and effortlessness of childhood, before the "heavenly ones" wrench the sacrifice from us (and with it the entire man), came too late to the poet.

Wasn't I rapt? Wasn't I ravished?

the message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work—it's a simple idea, but it's also incredibly subversive, as it overturns decades of folk career advice all focused on the mystical value of passion. It wrenches us away from our daydreams of an overnight transformation into instant job bliss and provides instead a more sober way toward fulfillment.

As Bliss declared victory, Bell struggled with a nagging sense of unease.

Homage Reverent homage to the guru in whom the three embodiments are indivisible: The dharmak?ya of great bliss, primordially free of conceptual elaboration, The sambhogak?ya bearing the fivefold self-illumination of primordial wisdom And the dance of nirm??ak?yas in the oceans of realms of animate beings.

No battles within himself. No worries. No death. Just…peace.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere else, someplace with boat drinks, some secret, distant state of bliss which if they were given would bore them in minutes.

There is no time like the pleasant.

Eating Orro's food was as close as you could get to nirvana without enlightenment.

This was what happiness felt like. He thrust inside me, the thick length of him stretching me.

No one quite knew why, but they felt light-hearted. Maybe it was because of the beautiful weather. The sky, so blue, seemed gently to bow down towards the horizon and caress the earth.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

O friends, I pray tonight, Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think gently of me; I am travel-worn, My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?

A heaven on earth.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

I love a spa day, so put me in a hot tub and give me a massage, and I am a very happy girl.