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Quotes About Completeness

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
~ Plato
The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
~ Plato
and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...
~ Plato
My heart had momentarily found its pestle.
~ Rabih Alameddine
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
~ Ida Pauline Rolf
Somehow I had a premonition of what I so often felt at later times: that you did not have the right to open a single book unless you engaged to read them all. With every line you read, you were breaking off a portion of the world. Before books, the world was intact, and afterwards it might be restored to wholeness once again. But how was I, who could not read, to take up the challenge laid down by all of them?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
just like the moon, life surely has a side that is perpetually turned away from us and which is not its opposite but adds to its perfection and completeness, to the truly intact and full sphere of being.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fully-realized human beings—those in harmony with their Source—are complete in themselves. They don't need anything outside themselves to be made whole.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mikään ei ole kaunista yksinään, kokonaisuus tekee kauniiksi.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
~ Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy,Something's missing!
~ Ray Bradbury
Temos tudo de que precisamos para sermos felizes, mas não somos felizes. Alguma coisa está faltando.
~ Ray Bradbury
Yo creo que hay una verdad en todos los mundos. Y todas ellas son partes de una misma verdad. Un día todas se unirán como trozos de un gran rompecabezas.
~ Ray Bradbury
Mutlu olmam?z için gerekli her ÅŸeye sahibiz, ama mutlu deÄŸiliz. Bir ÅŸey eksik.
~ Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
~ Ray Bradbury
He chose to include the thingsThat in each other are included, the whole,The complicate, the amassing harmony.
~ Wallace Stevens
She walks to a table She walk to table She is walking to a table She walk to table now What difference does it make What difference it make In Nature, no completeness No sentence really complete thought Language, like woman, Look best when free, undressed.
~ Wang Ping
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. WYSIATI
~ Daniel Kahneman
Belonging to groups often generates a kind of narcosis that gives us the illusion of sharing something missing from all the members of the group as individuals: completeness. Our main fear—fear of dissolution, of being nothing—keeps us from realizing that when we think we are one particular thing, and therefore isolated, we indeed become only that thing and lose the rest.
~ Daniel Odier
Like a book completely intact but missing one word every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read.
~ James Dashner
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.
~ James H. West