Self-Completion Quotes

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.

My pictures really finish themselves.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

When the Seven Deities let me know what I must do to be complete again - even though I will be stronger and more than just a regular mortal man - I will fulfill that mission and become whole once more.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.