Bliss Quotes

688 quotes by 416 authors

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. — Michael Chabon
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… — Jack Kerouac
Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save… — Emily Dickinson
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
To be happy--one must find one's bliss — Gloria Vanderbilt
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it… — Ramana Maharshi
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth,… — Richelle Mead
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. — Tibor Kalman
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… — Vladimir Nabokov
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for… — Joseph Campbell
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… — Roland Barthes
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because theyâ€™re two… — Steve Pavlina
Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to… — Patricia Briggs
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something… — Nora Ephron
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will… — Bell Hooks
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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