I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“All who enter even a little into that state of being present will experience a calmness and a degree of ecstasy which… — W. Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.” — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Were spirits free from mortal mesh And love not bound in hearts of flesh No aching breasts would yearn to meet And… — Christopher Brennan Copy Share Image
I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The dynamic, future-oriented, ecstatically inspired state of the evolutionary impulse is the new enlightenment that I am speaking about. The inner eye… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“It is enough, the now, and though it comes without anything, it gives me everything. With it I can repopulate the world.… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“We travel light despite the weighty darkness of existence that falls upon us like night.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“I strongly believe that the best partnerships aren't necessarily dependent on a mere common goal or religious belief but on a shared… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it… — Eminem Copy Share Image
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions -… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
