Complete Life Quotes

• When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Curves, Years, People

  "America Senses Something's Not Right" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.

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• We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Goal, Tiptoes

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2014

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• College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.

  Jon Stewart

  College, People, Worry

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life... It is impossible to bring more abundance into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you already have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are negative emotions and they will attract more of those feelings and events into your life.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, Excellence

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• If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reluctant, Ifs

  "Personal Lessons From Futurist Ray Bradbury on Crying, Escaping, Laughing" by Mick Mortlock, www.oregonlive.com. June 06, 2012.

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• A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

  Bernard Berenson

  Self, May, Aging

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Lakes, Ducks

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

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• It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Past

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• I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

  William Petersen

  Thinking, Missing, Way

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• Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

  Kirstie Alley

  Together, Needs, Looks

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• The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

  Epicurus

  Believe, Understanding, Mind

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, College, Life Is

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

  James Salter

  Dream, Struggle, Hands

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage

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• The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Morning, Silly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

  Donald Miller

  Men, Two, World

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Love Life

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• What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beautiful, Powerful, Kind

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be nice to be okay at the guitar or at the piano, a reasonable cook, perhaps able to fix your car or do some basic carpentry, and be able to write the odd article. Rather than being super good at one tiny thing, to be kind of average at lots of things. It might mean that you have a more kind of enjoyable, complete life.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nice, Mean, Writing

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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