Quotes About Wholeness

Take all the broken pieces of your heart and place them in God's hands, he will help you, heal you and put you back together again.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct

Me without you is like the moon without the stars, a kiss without lips, and a body without a heart. A world that doesn't spin, a sun that doesn't shine, a moon that doesn't glow, like life without a purpose, and a smile that never shows.

One day I'll wake up and this will all be a dream. I'll be whole again and you will be without me.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Everything I desire is within me.

When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Everything tries to be round.

My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

I have always aimed at maintaining a healthy balance with respect to all aspects of my life.

We ask the poet to reassure us by giving us a geometry of living, in which all things add up and cohere, to tell us how things buttress once another, circle round and intermelt.

Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear. We're all drawn to remoteness. A hard-to-reach place is necessarily beautiful. Beautiful and a little sacred, maybe. And a person who becomes inaccessible has a grace and wholeness the rest of us envy.

Viewed from a distance, his character projected an impression of solidity and wholeness which was in fact as insubstantial as a hologram; up close, he was all motes and light, you could pass your hand right through him. If you stepped back far enough, however, the illusion would click in again and there he would be, bigger than life, squinting at you from behind his little glasses and raking back a dank lock of hair with one hand.