Saint Augustine Quotes

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Spirituality is not about becoming special. It is about becoming one with everything.

How good is life, the mere living!

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

I breathe in the fullness and richness of life.

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to celebrate - as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.