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Quotes About Completeness

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
~ Dogen
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
~ Aristotle
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
~ Henry Miller
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
~ Gaston Bachelard
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 feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Being a mother has made my life complete.
~ Darcey Bussell
A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.
~ Deepak Chopra
I have what I need. This is enough.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
~ Gregory Bateson
For nothing can be sole or whole. That has not been rent.
~ William Butler Yeats
She gazed at me, and in her eyes I found what it was I'd been searching for all along, searching for without understanding. Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, heart of my heart.
~ William Kent Krueger
Cork had no idea what passed between them, though he could guess about part of it. In his own mind it was, as Henry Meloux had said long ago, that there were spiritual bonds connecting certain people, that they were two sides of the same leaf, two halves of a broken stone, and that it was not about love, as most people thought of that word, but about a wholeness that was there when the two parts came together.
~ William Kent Krueger
Aa our knawledge is hauflin; aa our prophesíein is hauflin: but whan the perfyte is comed, the onperfyte will be by wi. In my bairn days, I hed the speech o a bairn, the thochts o a bairn, the mind o a bairn, but nou at I am grown manmuckle, I am through wi aathing bairnlie… In smaa: there is three things bides for ey: faith, howp, luve. But the grytest o the three is luve.
~ William Laughton Lorimer
Spare me perfection. Give me instead the wholeness that comes from embracing the full reality of who I am, just as I am. Paradoxically, it is this whole self that is most perfect. As it turns out, wholeness, not perfection, is the route to the actualization of our deepest humanity.
~ David G. Benner
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
~ Frederick Buechner
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
~ Teresa of Avila
Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God's presence with worship, only then are we made complete.
~ Judson Cornwall
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.
~ Frederick Lenz
If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.
~ Euripides
God shall be all in all.
~ John Milton
We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.
~ Rajneesh