Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image ““[O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.”” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But a Yes is nothing without the No that gives it boundaries and form.” — Michael Bungay Stanier Copy Share Image
“Of what each one should be, he sees the form and rule, And till he reach to that, his joy can ne'er be full.” — Friedrich Rückert Copy Share Image
“Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Only no-mind can be without duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness.” — Chandra Mohan Jain Copy Share Image
“Being whole means finding balance and making difficult trade-offs without eroding or diminishing ourselves.” — Doug Moran Copy Share Image
“Now they are struggling to find that balance-- separated but still inseparable, apart but still a part.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“no matter the acuity of our senses, no matter how educated we are or how good we are or how much conviction we live… — John Cullinan Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image