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Quotes About Completeness

Do not focus on the broken pieces, focus on the whole picture
~ Manuel Corazzari
Gratitude goes beyond saying 'thank you'. Feelings complete the blessing
~ Mensah Oteh
Gratitude must come from a place of true sincerity to be effective. Without sincerity, the experience is incomplete.
~ Mensah Oteh
Passion gives me moments of wholeness
~ Anais Nin
There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
~ Sarah Dessen
How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
~ Sarah Dessen
The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.
~ Sarah Dessen
I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was just perfect, just right all at once.
~ Sarah Dessen
Wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am includes all that has made me so. It's more than a statement of immediate fact: it is already an explanation, a justification, a demand - it is already biographical.
~ John Berger
When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate
~ John Berger
He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.
~ John Berryman
Only an idiot asks questions like "Have you read all of these books?" or "Have you listened to all of those CDs?" Seriously, there should be a number that one can call under those circumstances, after which a squad of big blokes will arrive at one's door and beat the questioning fool unconscious with a pristine copy of À la recherche du temps perdu , or that collection of the Complete Works of Beethoven that was just too cheap to pass up.
~ John Connolly
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
~ John Drinkwater
I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
~ Dani Shapiro
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
~ Saint Augustine
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.
~ Chris Fabry
A volte una soluzione sembra plausibile solo in questo modo: sognando. Forse perché la ragione è pavida, non riesce a riempire i vuoti fra le cose, a stabilire la completezza, che è una forma di semplicità, preferisce una complicazione piena di buchi, e allora la volontà affida la soluzione al sogno.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.
~ Arianna Huffington
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
~ Aristotle
The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.
~ Aristotle
poseía un conocimiento más completo de los resortes de la Naturaleza que su amigo.
~ Armando Palacio Valdés