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• The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Fullness Of Life, Life Is

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• Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Water, May

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.157, Discovery House

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• As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.

  David Deida

  Circles, Purpose, Layers

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

  John Zerzan

  Fall, Fullness Of Life, Bridges

  John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”

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• The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

  Jakob Bohme

  Play, Perfect, Serious Business

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• Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.

  Patrick Geddes

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Past, Skeletons, Trying

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• Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.

  Horatio Dresser

  Inspirational, Real Estate Motivational, Satisfying

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• ...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Weight, May

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.30, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

  Julian of Norwich

  Inspirational, Positive, Joy

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, People, Meditation

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• Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Needs, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

  Julian Barnes

  Mind, Admitting, Way

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Fire, Giving, Soul

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• All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cutting, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Past, Names

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• In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Reflection

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• True perfection seems imperfect,
  yet it is perfectly itself.
  True fullness seems empty,
  yet it is fully present.
  True straightness seems crooked.
  True wisdom seems foolish.
  True art seems artless.
  The Master allows things to happen.
  She shapes events as they come.
  She steps out of the way
  and lets the Tao speak for itself.

  Laozi

  Art, Perfection, Way

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• I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Essence, Mind, Wish

  RICHARD LLEWELLYN (1967). “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY”

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• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Maturity, Years, Accomplishment

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• God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Reality, Kingdoms, Embrace

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• There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Knowing, Calmness

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Prayers to Broken Stones”, p.100, Spectra

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• [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Long, Soul

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

  Donna Tartt

  Action, Nothingness

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.278, Vintage

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• It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Spring, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.2489, e-artnow

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