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Quotes About Bliss

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.
~ Virgil
In this brief Sabbath now, time fit To be eternal. Such a bliss Of bloom's no ornament, but root And light, a saving loveliness, Starred firmament here underfoot.
~ Wendell Berry
Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
~ Wilkie Collins
in both cases the desire for knowledge had ended bliss. Sophisticates
~ Will Durant
Arise you little glancing wings, and sing your infant joy! Arise and drink your bliss, for every thing that lives is holy!
~ William Blake
The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.
~ William Blake
Every object that is loved forms the center of a paradise.
~ William Blake
Guidance," says Ibn Arabi, "is to be led to bewilderment. Then you will know that the whole affair is bewilderment, that bewilderment is agitation and movement, and movement is life. There is no rest, no death, only existence, nothing of nonexistence."55 So it continues for all eternity. In reality, it is this bewilderment that allows the Sufis to taste already in this world the never-ending bliss of paradise.
~ William C. Chittick
In hours of bliss we oft have met: They could not always last; And though the present I regret, I'm grateful for the past.
~ William Congreve
We were mining a rich lode of bliss. But disaster never felt far away.
~ William Finnegan
Be still and be aware. Look at each other for a few minutes. You may experience or feel the divine presence within the person in front of you. You may even experience or feel divine love and divine bliss. Silently say, "I AM THAT I AM. I salute the I AM within you. I salute the divine presence within you. Atma namaste!
~ Choa Kok Sui
When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I'm floating inside a cloud.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams.
~ Christopher Golden
Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities, and in its brief course I discern all the verities and realities of my existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the spirit of beauty.
~ Helen Keller
You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.
~ Henepola Gunaratana (Bhante G)
What I dream of is an art of balance.
~ Henri Matisse
Le bonheur est comme l'été : il n'irradie pas. Rien à attendre de son souvenir pour les jours où nous aurons froid. - Il y a des sensations qui écrivent en lettres ineffaçables. Le bonheur écrit blanc.
~ Henry de Montherlant
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
~ Henry Lawson
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
~ Henry Miller
I'd learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good .
~ Henry Shukman
Prayer isThe world in tune,A spirit-voice,And vocal joys,Whose echo is heaven's bliss.O let me climbWhen I lie down!
~ Henry Vaughan
Happiness is pleasure without regret
~ Leo Tolstoy
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but the curse still lies heavy on the human race....because our moral nature is such that we are unable to be idle and at peace. p 590
~ Leo Tolstoy