Bliss Quotes

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

To me, sweat is workout bliss.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

Real bliss is to have peace of mind.

Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others.

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.

He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.

You've travelled through life together Enjoying years of wedded bliss We congratulate you on reaching And we toast your happiness

Do what gives you bliss.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.