Quotes About Completeness

a runner or a boxer who doesn't know how to swim, or cannot climb, is not strong in a complete manner.

Saudade é um pouco como fome. Só passa quando se come a presença. Mas às vezes a saudade é tão profunda que a presença é pouco: quer-se absorver a outra pessoa toda. Essa vontade de um ser o outro para uma unificação inteira é um dos sentimentos mais urgentes que se tem na vida.

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete. Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete.

The half is greater than the whole.

you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.

I cling to that story in The Symposium, of the two halves coming together in "an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's sight," because that's all I want to know.

History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and of love.

She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.

All seemed to be in order. The boy had two legs, two arms, ten fingers, ten toes. Richard

I need you, he begged. You're everything I'm not.

Everything is there

I think there is nothing more completely beautiful and more beautifully complete than walls lined with well-arranged books.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

That word 'well'—it's an old word, and it means the same as 'whole'.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

I think that, to some degree, all of us are fractured souls. Cut in half. And we wander through life looking for the rest of ourselves. And sometimes we're fortunate enough to meet someone who possesses, in themselves, the part of ourselves that we've been missing. We may not realize it on a conscious level, but definitely on a subconscious level. We see in someone else … something of ourselves.