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Quotes About Completeness

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "This is the cause!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible, and says:
~ Leo Tolstoy
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
~ Ted Sarandos
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
~ Helmut Jahn
I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
~ Susan Orlean
You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I find that weird and depressing. I don't dislike the audience; it's just when I'm up there, they're in the darkness. There's just a sound of laughing or not. They're not 'people,' they're this big organism.
~ Stephen Merchant
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
~ Toni Morrison
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
~ Toni Morrison
Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.
~ Tove Jansson
orders (or as Katydid called them, "whole
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Look for the truth in nature, I wanted to say to those cookie-eating missionaries in the next compartment; nothing is complete, everything is imperfect, nothing lasts. Go to bed.
~ Paul Theroux
If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of sadness), if you can be willing to feel fully and acknowledge continually your own sadness and the sadness of life, but at the same time not be drowned in it, because you also remember the vision and power of the Great Eastern Sun, you experience balance and completeness, joining heaven and earth, joining vision and practicality.
~ Pema Chodron
We already have everything we need.
~ Pema Chodron
If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.
~ Del Close
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
~ William Penn
Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.
~ Tove Jansson
So the relationship of each moment in the whole to all the others is implied by its total content: the way in which it 'holds' all the others enfolded within it.
~ David Bohm
A superior man always assumes complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, he has no control at all and everything is out of his hands. He acts with impeccable courage and persistence, expecting nothing but the inherent feeling of completeness he enjoys in the fullest giving of his gift.
~ David Deida
Every believer is made complete when placed under the complete claim of Christ, and all the spiritual ills of our world find their only cure in him.
~ Unknown
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
~ William Shakespeare
You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.
~ Christopher Langan