Quotes About Completeness

One cannot hire a hand—the whole man always comes with it

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berkeley he would have lived and died a partial person, never knowing completeness.

A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of nightghasts, not the waking world of sense.

In all his life he had never known such intensity of passion, such completeness of being. Nothing existed in all the world, save this woman beneath him. He had no sense of place or time, nor even identity. There was no war, no mission, no life beyond. There was no guilt, only a joy he had experienced only once before, in a delirium dream on the point of death.

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.

LYNDA: Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed? TINY: Agreed!

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

Love is when you look into someone's eyes and see everything you need." —Unknown

I like adding stuff to my game, I want to be as complete a player as possible. So I want to be able to do a bit of everything and be good, or great at everything.

If, in all the circumstances of life a man does not turn over and over both things and ideas in order to examine them thoroughly under their different aspects before taking action, that man is weak and incomplete and in danger of fatal failure.

The half of my own soul.

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

Es el hombre completo quien, desde su completez, lleva a cabo, con su maestría, el trabajo de un esclavo.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Love isn't about sparks. It's about not wanting to be without someone...and feeling complete when you're with them.

And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.

Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there.

Life is short. Why not be familiar with all of it?