Quotes About Bliss

Life's only true requirement: be happy.

They say that about 3 percent of the people on Earth live in bliss. So what the hell are the other 97 percent doing?

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.

So savor a delicious meal, not just for itself, but as a gift from God. Be carried away by powerful music as an anticipation of the music of heaven. Be enticed by the smell of the sea, the scent of a flower. Be seduced by the caresses and kisses of your spouse. Enjoy these moments of bliss as God's gift that opens a brief glimpse of the utter ecstasy to come when we live in God's glorious presence.

Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.

Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her heart's desire'.

An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.

Que no era libre? Ah, gracias a Dios, no lo era. Pero se sentía ligera, una diosa sobre las nubes, un pez en el agua, colmada de felicidad.

Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing

Those who go in bliss naturally includes the buddhas, but it also refers to our own potential. We, too, can free ourselves from the hopes and fears of self-centeredness. The bliss of perceiving reality without these limitations is our birthright. Thus Shantideva doesn't bow down to something outside himself, but to his own capacity for enlightenment.

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on terraces and stared for afternoons at mediocre views. I was feeling overjoyed for happy couples. I would see or hear about people, usually people I hardly knew or didn't even like, getting together, finding each other after so much groping, and I would feel bliss. I was blindsided by familiar things.

The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and be vanished in the bliss of the giving.

Chocolate or a good man can instigate your heart's surrender, but full-bodied pleasure and overflowing love—opening until you are exposed fully to God as love's bliss—is the only way to live true to your deepest desire, with or without a trustable lover or a tasty dessert.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.

Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like moulten lead.

Nay, pray you, seek no color for your going, But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying, Then was the time for words. No going then! Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent, none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven. They are so still, Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, Art turned the greatest liar.

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

I wish your husband well and hope he'll come home again to domestic bliss.