#completion

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#completion #inspirational #love #relationships #inspirational

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#completion #contrive #endings #i #like

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#berkeley #both #california #completion #economics

Love is the outreach of self toward completion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#love #love is #outreach #self #toward

My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#ball #been #better #completion #course

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ↗

— James Baldwin

#attachment #belonging #comfort #completion #fulfillment

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#completion #love #music #recognition #sad

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. ↗

— Eberhard Arnold

#completion #every #god #help #mind