Bliss Quotes - Page 20

• If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Ignorance, Lows, Grades

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• The soul,
  Advancing ever to the source of light
  And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns
  In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

  Henry Ware, Jr.

  Light, Perfection, Soul

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• He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

  John Milton

  Greatness, Doe, Done

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.495

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• Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

  Gloria Reuben

  Fishing, Breathing, Air

  "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Brandon Boyd

  Creative, Painting, Problem

  "Ectoplasm: In the Art Studio with Incubus' Brandon Boyd". Interview with Erin Broadley, www.laweekly.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Forever, Mind, Rising

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Average, Punishment

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• I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Civilization, People, Needs

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

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• 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.

  George Herbert

  Art, Dirty, Men

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• The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ocean, Heart, Wave Of Life

  "Love and God". Book by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1969.

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• My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

  King Krule

  New York, Memories, Adrift

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 25, 2011.

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• One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Mind

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• You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self, but your mind has to be on God all the time. Then you can easily attain bliss. A mother bird will be thinking of the young ones in the nest, even when she is out looking for food. Similarly, you have to keep your mind on God, while engaged in all worldly actions. The important thing is to be completely dedicated to God or the Guru. Once you have that dedication, the goal will not be far away.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Mother, Spiritual

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• I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Mother, Blessing

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• Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, Yoga, Men

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Independent, Men, Self

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• If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Kings, Body, Want

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• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  LL Cool J

  Romantic, Ocean, Swimming

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• I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

  Ani DiFranco

  Education, Ignorance, Envy

  Song: Adam And Eve

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• The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Love Is, Hands

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11.-12. Miscellany”

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

  Edward Young

  Wise, Joy, Literature

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.236

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• What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.

  Thomas Campbell

  Angel, Hours, Has Beens

  1799 The Pleasures of Hope, pt.2, l.375-6.

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• Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Personality, Care

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.158, Lulu Press, Inc

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