Plenitude Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in…
— Albert Camus
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of…
— Jean Klein
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign Aries—which the sun…
— Shoghi Effendi
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With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness…
— Linda Gregerson
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As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire…
— Maurice Blanchot
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced…
— A. R. Ammons
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Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in…
— Daniel Odier
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
— Gaston Bachelard
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With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible.…
— Betsy Prioleau
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My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is…
— Eduardo Galeano
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The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
— Oscar Wilde
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an…
— Eugene Ionesco
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He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere…
— Thomas Pynchon
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In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.…
— Oscar Wilde
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