Quotes About Completion

Romantic love is the story of how you need another person to complete you. It's an absolutely insane story. My experience is that I need no one to complete me. As soon as I realize that, everyone completes me.

Dying is everything they were looking for in life.

I once caught him in the act of revising a short story that had just been published. "Why," I asked, "rewrite what's already in print?" He looked at me, vaguely; then said, "Well, obviously it's not finished.

You don't understand. When a life is completed, it ought to be put away. It's like a sonnet. When you've written the final couplet, why go on any further? You only destroy the part that's already written!

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE

he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

You don't jump out of an airplane and stop halfway. It's all the way.

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.

The results of taking on too much is that nothing gets done. Or it doesn't get done well.

And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but forever just out of reach. It is not lack of interest, but interest frustrated, cut off, imperfectly held. So says the Chronicle today. But for me it is the fear of emptiness.

Enough. What does "enough" feel like? When happiness and contentment happen, how do you know?

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

A vida é como um livro, filho. E todo livro tem um fim. Não importa o quanto você goste do livro você vai chegar na última página e ele vai terminar. Nenhum livro é completo sem o fim. E quando você chega lá somente quando você lê as últimas palavras é que você vê como o livro é bom. Ele parece mais real.

No somos exactamente novelas. No somos exactamente relatos cortos. Al final somos obras completas.

Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.

Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection - that our lives, too, are unclosed and contingent - do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt that she was a spy in the cold.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

We had a good run, and now it's over; what's wrong with that?

To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.