Bliss Quotes - Page 27

• If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

  Nagarjun

  Desire, Scratches, Greater

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• I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

  Pamela Anderson

  Fun, Ignorance, People

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• One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Expectations, Boredom, Inspire

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• The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Light, Tissues, Body

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.197, Paramahansa Yogananda

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• Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Promise, Friendly

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 17 (1919)

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• One whose mind is turned inwards is ever in bliss

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind

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• We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.

  Alexander Lowen

  Philosophy, Ocean, Air

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• Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Silence, Joy, Purpose

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• "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

  Kenneth Grahame

  Real, Sight, Next Week

  'The Wind in the Willows' (1908) ch. 2.

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• When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Past, Path

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• Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Self, Stones

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• To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Way, Follow Your Bliss

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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Understanding, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe In Yourself, Opposites, Rebel

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

  Ramakrishna

  Rain, Ocean, Heaven

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• Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Learning, Ignorance, Doe

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Janine Shepherd

  Dream, Opportunity, Creating

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• Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Stations

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

  Frank Herbert

  Summer, Heart, Dark

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Moving, Four Elements

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Beer, Proud

  'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.

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

  Dean Koontz

  Ignorance, Sleep, Night

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.97, Bantam

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• Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

  Horace

  Kings, Court, Clear

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong.

  Henry James

  Hurt, Pain, Confusion

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.318, University of Chicago Press

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• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Speak, Take Me

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