Whole - Quotes
The important thing is to make some sort of difference [...] You know, actually change something. [...] Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
The world is so empty if we think of it just as a collection of mountains, rivers and cities; but to find someone somewhere who sees eye to eye with us, someone with whom we can continue to commune in silence, makes the whole world into a populated garden.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy`s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you`ll never enjoy the sunshine.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mighty love`s consuming fire
Has most deeply scorched my soul,
Cooling balm for hot desire,
Gracious tulip, make me whole.
Takin in a whole new scene and I`m swimmin with a new crowd;
Breakin down the old four walls and I`m buildin them up from the ground.