Bliss Quotes - Page 23

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  Adam Pascal

  Ignorance, Wish, Stills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  K. D. Lang

  Song, Heartache, Fertile

  "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Golden

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• Imagination brings bliss at no cost

  Shing02

  Imagination, Cost

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• One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

  Ogden Nash

  Scratches

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

  Bodhidharma

  Peace, Suffering, Doe

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, North Point Press

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• Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moving

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• Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Shadow, Shadow Kiss

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 63

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• The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

  John Updike

  Book, Errors, Lasts

  John Updike (2013). “More Matter: Essays And Criticism”, p.866, Penguin UK

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• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

  Alexander Pope

  Blame, Depends

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.370

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• Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rest In Peace, Ignorance, Forever

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 16, 2017

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• There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Kindness, Soul

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• The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.

  Courtney Stodden

  Taste, Satisfaction

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• If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

  Gyles Brandreth

  Glasses, Broken, Simplicity

  "Genius" with Dave Gorman, BBC Radio 4, Series 3, Episode 4, October 22, 2007.

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• I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

  Mark Twain

  Together, May, Telephones

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• I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

  Julianna Margulies

  Ignorance, Ignorance Is Bliss, Believer

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• Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sex, Ignorance, Oedipus

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 2, 2006), 2005–2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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