Quotes of Fullness - somelinesforyou

“ Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed. ”

- Huston Smith

“ In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. ”

- John Bunyan

“ I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a degout given by satiety. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation. ”

- Mary Jane Sherfey

“ There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. ”

- Homer

“ Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ From abundance springs satiety. ”

- Titus Livius

“ When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. ”

- Andrew Cohen

“ The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. ”

- George Santayana

“ Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. ”

- Horatio W. Dresser

“ You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Homer

“ The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through? ”

- Simone Weil

“ All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. ”

- Alice Walker

“ An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. ”

- Harold Lokes

“ He is half 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

“ How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become — to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life. ”

- David Steindl Rast

“ Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine. ”

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“ The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think. ”

- Humphry Davy

“ Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life. ”

- Elaine Cumming

“ There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication… Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. ”

- John Dewey

“ It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all. ”

- Grenville Kleiser
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