Bliss Quotes - Page 28

• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Night, Land

  John Quincy Adams, “The Wants Of Man”

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• Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Choices, Ignorant, Slavery

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.298

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• Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Kissing, Danger, Refuse

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852). “Select Poetical Works”, p.16

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• Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Civilization, Luxury

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• There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love.
  Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation.
  True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
  They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss

  David Lynch

  Lying, Ocean, Creativity

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• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Butterfly, Fighting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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• Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

  Ann Wilson

  Making Money, Boundaries, Dangerous

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• A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
  A mute Delight regards Time's countless works:
  To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room,
  To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Time, Self, Roots

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.14, Lotus Press

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• The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

  Adi Shankara

  Dream, Sleep, Self

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Solitude, Inward

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.

  Amit Ray

  Joy, Sun, Realizing

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• Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Creation, Comes And Goes

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

  James Madison

  Eye, Names, Heaven

  James Madison (1962). “Papers”

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• You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Infinite, Existence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.114, editionNEXT.com

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• I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

  Sylvia Browne

  Grief, Sides, States

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• Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Snakes

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Silence

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• Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Strong, Passion

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Elements, Flow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Thinking

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• My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave.

  Edward Dyer

  Joy, Mind, Earth

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• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Buddhism, Joy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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