Quotes About Bliss

That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven… In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

They say that ignorance is bliss. I think ignorance is the mother of extreme behavior, ensuring either a colorless and tedious life or one of passionate commitment to foolishness of one kind or another.

Cookies,Emily explained. There isn't a man alive who doesn't appreciate homemade cookies. There's something magical about them--really, she added when Suzannah cast her a doubtful glance.Cookies create an aura of domestic bliss--it sounds crazy, but it's true.A man can't resist a woman who bakes him cookies. They remind him of home and mother and a fire crackling in the fireplace.

and they had been eternally happy together for rather more than a week

deleite. —Tanta indulgencia

The main freedom involved in using hormonal birth control is freedom from thinking about-and ultimately facing-our reproductive power. This "freedom" essentially results in an ignorance of our bodies which costs us, individually and collectively, dear, dear, dearly. We cannot love ourselves if we do not know ourselves. There is bliss, but no freedom, in ignorance.

Heaven,I'm in heaven,And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak;And I seem to find the happiness I seekWhen we're out together dancingCheek to cheek.

I hope you're happy, darling.

for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?

Stories of spiritual and religious awe were a sixth wonder of life. These weren't as common as you might imagine, given our perennial search for nirvana, satori, bliss, or samadhi.

The mind in its great sublime bliss is nondual, being neither self nor others, for it perceives intrinsic reality, which is before one, behind one, and around one in all the ten directions.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. —James Michener

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.