C Quotes
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“Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.”
“Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.”
“Complete health and awakening are really the same.”
Source: Reflections of Mind: Western Psychology Meets Tibetan Buddhism
“Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”
Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.”
“Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Complete intelligence is not always available in a perfect manner. Even incomplete intelligence, if assessed properly and promptly by experts and acted upon effectively, can make a difference”
Source: The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”
“Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.”
“Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.”
Source: The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane”
“Complete package is overrated. We're not a complete package, we're the package we're completing together.”
“Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.”
“Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Complete self-devotion is woman's part.”
“Complete shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self) is keval gnan (absolute Knowledge)”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.”
“Complete truth and complete falsehood both don't engage people. A mixture of truth and falsehood engages everyone because some people try to prove it as truth and others as falsehood.”
“Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.”
“Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.”
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.”
“Completely cutting others off over mere opinions is rooted in cowardice; but being the one cut off is grounded in courage.”
“Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'."”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“Completely different impressions of someone can each be created by a selection of facts, or even a single fact, from the very same collection of facts about them.”
“Completely dried up, They've become beans.”
“Completely loyal, completely unconditional. And I laughed at her, because even I knew that love is not like that. Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. Yes, that's exactly what love is: a tiny, jittery primate with eyes that are permanently peeled open in fear.”
Source: The Gargoyle
“Completely oblivious to either the angry mob around her or to her own nakedness, the woman walked right up to Roan and, in a voice that was both sultry and fragile said, “I have found her.”
Source: Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“Completely ruined, I thought. Normal was out the window and floating to the stars.”
Source: Keeping Her Toy
“Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!”
“Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.”
“Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.”
“Completeness in character is in Christ.”
“Completeness in character is in Christ alone.”
“Completeness is gathering the broken self and wholeness is gathering the complete self”
“Completeness is rare in history.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Completeness of crucial information is extremely important, as missing data is not only a cost issue but is also a massive lost opportunity issue...”
Source: Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance
“Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.”
“Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.”
“Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.”
“Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.”
“Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.”
“Completing a recovery session the day after a game is just as important. I like to go for a walk or a swim and have a stretch”
“Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.”
“Completion does not depend on
material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.”