That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.
– Stefanos Livos
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- Literature is the real life of imaginary people. – Stefanos Livos
- A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold. – Stefanos Livos
- That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality. – Stefanos Livos
- Somebody told me I’m a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it. – Stefanos Livos
- Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand). – Dada Bhagwan
- Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually. – Billy Graham
- What’s tragic isn’t that we can’t retaliate…What’s truly tragic is……being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life. – Sui Ishida
- Ever since my famous battle with Python, I’ve had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!) – Rick Riordan
- And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power. – Catherynne M Valente
- You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered. – Franny Billingsley
- Rain is Love, Love is Bliss, Bliss is Blessing. – Mahrukh
- He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. – Sheldon B Kopp
- No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery. – Dada Bhagwan
- Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. – Arthur Golden
- Absence of worldly misery – that is called eternal bliss. – Dada Bhagwan
- Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure. – Roland Barthes
- Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul). – Dada Bhagwan
- Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal. – Dada Bhagwan
- There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents. – Dada Bhagwan
- The journey from Ignorance to Awareness is nothing but perceptual bliss to actual bliss – Harrish Sairaman
- The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss. – Lionel Suggs
- Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
- The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
- A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. – Angela Carter
- Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The Greatest loss in life is the loss of a mother: The second greatest, the loss of Self. – Med Saidi
- The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. – Ronald Reagan
- Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. – Lao Tzu
- Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. – Arthur Wellesley
- It’s often in your deepest misery that brings out your greatest self – Thabiso Monkoe
- i have only one way to blow the steam off, i make money, you spend money thats funny,now i’m smilling like thats honey:) – Mohlalefi j motsima
- For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. – Cheryl Strayed
- Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back. – Rick Riordan
- I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act. – Roxy Writer
- I’ve come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it’s inevitable. Fight for it. – Ann Marie Frohoff
- Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. – Oscar Wilde
- Love is the matter of souls….in which body is trivial aspect but the tragic part is that people believe what is seen. – Anonymous
- Prayer was never meant to be magic,’ Mother said.’Then why bother with it?’ Suzy scowled.’Because it’s an act of love,’ Mother said. – Madeleine LEngle