The blessedness of being little!!!

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth,…

— William Shakespeare

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

— William Shakespeare

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

— Sarada Devi

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all…

— Jack Kerouac

“Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when…

— Clarice Lispector

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How much there is to suffer. When was time enough to pay attention to our lighter emotions? And still I recognize, better than most…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from…

— Dante Alighieri

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

“Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra' That is, "Now your blessedness appears.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but…

— George MacDonald

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it…

— Novalis

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them…

— Dante Alighieri

This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know; Its burdens growin' lighter- An' it's Love that makes 'em so! An'…

— Frank Lebby Stanton

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is…

— Thomas Merton