Quotation Explorer - 'Empty'

These dreamsThese empty dreamsfrom the make-believe bedroomstheir parents left themare the after-effectsof television programsabout the idealwhite american familywith black maidsand latino janitorswho are well trainto make everyoneand their bill collectorslaugh at themand the people they represent - Pedro Pietri
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. - Janeane Garofalo
Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time. - Theodore Dalrymple
I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a part of me, like a freckle, like a bruise. Like a middle name now one acknowledged. - Sarah Winman
Devil does not buy our empty soul. He waits for us to selling off that. (Diable n'achète notre âme vide. - Il attend qu'on la solde.) - Charles de Leusse
A person is worth to be called the functional head who does not mind giving credit to the right brain for an organisational growth; otherwise there are innumerable top-hierarchical people roaming all around by keeping an empty or junk box above on their shoulders. - Anuj Somany
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. - Albert Einstein
What more does one need than what is offered by the present moment? Once you have learnt how to dissolve in the present moment, and you are able to enjoy it, you will have no problem in disregarding the empty chit-chat of the Ego, the mind! - Frank Wanderer
The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow.. - Cecil Lewis
I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me. - Edwidge Danticat
Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them. - Marilyn French
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. - William Shakespeare
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner) - Stephen Colbert
Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet. - Amit Kalantri
Empty yourself to fill the void with love. - Debasish Mridha
There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty. - Brian Hugh Warner
When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good. - Christina Moracho
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over, the plate's empty.
We were not placed on an empty island for a reason, we were placed into communities to BUILD RELATIONSHIPS and Help ONE ANOTHER! - Manuel Corazzari
Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds - Abdul Sattar Edhi
Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you? - Lionel Suggs
From midnight to 4: 00 AM is the loneliest time in the world. Because for those of us too sad to sleep, the only thing we have to look at is an empty bed, and the only thing we have to think of is every single person who didn't want to fill it tonight. - Lone Alaskan Gypsy
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons. - Malti Bhojwani
A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds. - Jacques Derrida
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom - Corrie ten Boom
An empty mind is easy to feed. - Stephen Richards
Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Only those who are empty within, seek to suppress those around them - Dara Reidyr
If two people who love each other Ares soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you.. - Trevor Lease
Next to the Energy that emanates from the Sun, there is only one real magic; It lies within the Visual Artist. When one can take an empty space and create something beautiful, It is not just Art, It's "Magic". - Andrea L'Artiste
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes. - Ragnar Tørnquist
Life without love is empty; success without happiness is a mirage. - Debasish Mridha
A writer's mind can never be empty. - Michael Acciarino
I'm tired of hurting from the people who leave me. I'm tired of getting comfortable with others. I tell you everything and you leave. It's like you're take what is good in me and all that is left in me is an empty shitty feeling. - Shailee J-N
How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you? - Ray Bradbury
Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty. - Marty Rubin
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
She was asked to pour out everything she had, but all she had was an empty soul. - Akshay Vasu
The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception. - Jennifer Sodini
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening
I am not me, I am not a human being.I am empty. Infinite emptiness dwells in me.I am the spirit.Emptiness is me. - Debasish Mridha
A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere. - Derek Prince
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love. - Debasish Mridha
A life without books is empty. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up. - Matshona Dhliwayo
as i sit here looking at the window, i feel broken and empty. - darwin araman ergina
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute - Ambrose Bierce
Quote from FUTURE GONE: "…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find out. I die, with my arms stretched towards the spotlights.Then whiteness.My body is still there somewhere…Buried in the extremely bright lights of empty hope". - Alexandar Tomov
The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be deformed. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When one can take an empty space and create something beautiful; It is not just Art, It's "magic". - Andrea L'Artiste
Come, lovers.Come join us.Bring your empty cupsand sit by the fire.Let Khayyam and Hafezreveal to you what you feel.Rumi will pour the wine and I will listen. - Kamand Kojouri
I am a knight riding from tower to tower seeking a princess to rescue but all the dragons are slain, the towers are empty and the princesses taken. - Pieter Niemand
A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence. - Debasish Mridha
Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside. - Christine Fonseca
The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes
Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel. - Francesca Lia Block
the world feel empty without a best friend .true friends no doubt are rare in this world - nimra
All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different. - Uma Nnenna
To have an empty head is worse than to have an empty bank account. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The process of awakening or enlightenment is nothing but to empty yourself from inside, and make you encounter with the real being, where you absolutely relax yourself and feel rejuvenated to experience life again. - Roshan Sharma
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely. - C.S. Lewis
A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters. - Sue Nelson Buckley
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. - Unknown
Empty your life from the baggage of the past so you may enjoy the beauty of the present. - Debasish Mridha
If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty - German Proverb
Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me,and hang limp and clean, an empty dress - - Denise Levertov
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. - Corrie ten Boom
I fell in love with you like the stars fell in love with the sky, without you I am empty and bare. - Seja Majeed
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
My empty waterdish mocks me.
I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever. - H.C. Paye
And of all the rooms in my childhood,God was the largestand most empty. - Li-Young Lee
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I talk to God but the sky is empty. - Sylvia Plath
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. - Zarina Bibi
As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled. - Shakti Gawain
You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering. - Meredith Willson
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. - Norman Douglas
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan. - Wilhelm Reich
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. - Robert Fripp
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beamsAs in an idiot's brain remembered wordsHang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
A genuine Christian with a heart empty of all wickedness and filled with Christ's Love should be able to achieve any spiritual goals for the Glory of God. - Santosh Thankachan
Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own. - Steve Maraboli
Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,each of us is compelled to return to our root. Our root is quietude. - Lao Tzu
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. - Democritus
We're all born an empty page. - Lauren DeStefano
The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat. - Shannon L. Alder
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron
If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets. - Amit Kalantri
Our workforce is our most valuable asset, but it seems the engine fuel is going to be empty and shut down. - irak.ibrahim hussain didi
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. - Erma Bombeck
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. - Babylonian Talmud
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art. - Unarine Ramaru
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup? - Nyogen Senzaki
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?) - Ally Carter
Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off. - Terry Pratchett
I talk to God, but the sky is empty. - Sylvia Plath
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.
Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth. - Dave Gorman
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Life is but an empty dream - Ehrich Weiss
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become. - Darryl Stewart Wellness
It's not that we get all the answers in life. Its just that the questions disappear and there we flow with life - quenched yet thirsty; full yet empty. - Rashmit Kalra
That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. - Ann Voskamp
Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages. - Israelmore Ayivor
Sometimes I hear the echo of your voice in an empty hall and it reminds me that you're gone. - Sylvain Reynard
Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently filled in our soul and what needs to be filled occasionally through encounters. - Shannon L. Alder
If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball. - Rory Stewart
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liza considering back-peddling but thought about her empty bank account. That’ll be fine, sir. I don’t wear skirts anyway.He hmphed as though he suspected she might also be inclined to burn her bra on the courthouse steps and snapped, No jeans either, this is a professional establishment. - Gwenn Wright
Lets reflect the hopes of the nations under oppression, injustice and brutality. All they see is Unknown suffering Of an empty heart and soul and thus their suffering is unknown. We cannot do everything; but still we can do something. Lend a hand to support the suffering ones. - Auliq Ice
Fill what is empty; empty what is full - davidji
Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played. - James Rozoff
I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty. - Rachel Brady
The human heart is a dark, unyielding mystery. It is a perforated jug with a mouth forever open; though all rivers of the earth pour in, it will remain empty and thirsting. The greatest of hopes had not filled it. Would it be filled now by the greatest of despairs? (Report to Greco) - N. Kazantzakis
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. - Corrie ten Boom
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. - Jay Asher
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make. - Eudora Welty
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. - Betty Friedan
The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky. - Ashley Madau
If two people who love eachother are soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you.. - Trevor Lease
Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways. - Iveta Cherneva
The mind which is reluctant to change or alter is "ME and I". The mind which is ready to get empty and altered is "BUDDHA". - Aditya Ajmera
A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. - Scott Edward Shjefte
Broken heart is flute.i blow into the flute & design walking portrait with empty pen - basant nayak
Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break; While you must feel the summer's rage of fire, Beyond this frigid season's empty storms. Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire. - James Wright
When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings. - Raheel Farooq
[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil. - Peter Atkins
Full mind is the mind of stupid man; empty mind is the mind of wise man! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There would be a lot less broken hearts when a relationship fails, if people would understand there’s no reason to want someone that doesn’t want you. Never allow yourself to feel half empty, when you deserve a relationship that will fill your heart with happiness. - Ron Baratono
Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing. - Ernest Hemingway
If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. - John Scalzi
If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty - Kiran
It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled. - Daisy Hernandez
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life. - Abhijit Naskar
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. - Denis Johnson
To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. - Nema Al-Araby
I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love. - Kuba Wojewódzki
Life without faith, is like an empty beautiful chocolate box! - Zybejta "Beta" Metani' Marashi
- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away. - Stefan D
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. - Norman Borlaug
I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations. - Stephen Colbert
More and more you empty your mind, more and more you come closer to the spirit in the body. - Roshan Sharma
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. - Eleanor Brownn
Focus on what you like and forget about what you don't like, before it drains all your energy.Full equipment on the hands of an empty mind is useless, I prefer a full mind with empty hands. - Cyc Jouzy
Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. - Green Day
Life is nothing but an empty space filled with memories from beginning to end. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse. - Eloisa James
Don't let a stranger that comes to you leave empty handed without food, water, shelter, or word of encouragement. Whether you believe in God or s**t, it's a bad omen when you let a stranger that came to you left empty handed. - Uzoma Nnadi
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. - Karl Kraus
Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done. - Shannon L. Alder
No one benefits from an empty jar; fill yourself first before pouring out to others. - Matshona Dhliwayo
To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking. - Lori McWilliam Pickert
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. - Stephen Hawking
There are books written to be read.There are books written to be sold.The first ones have the soul and lessons you need.The second ones are just plain, empty, and cold. - Alexandr Iscenco
I Used to think that I knew everything, I was alone. My heart was empty, a single soul experience of life. When I discovered in a pair of eyes, a light reflection of mine, I found my mate, my match, my soul. - Katia M. S.
Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams. - Eudora Welty
Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I've been living in the shadow of empty people for far too long. Now I need to find chests full of wild lilies, minds full of wonder, hearts full of light. - Anita Krizzan
If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside. - Kim Sunée
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. - Epicurus
I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something. - Santosh Kalwar
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. - Laurence Binyon
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
Those who are too arrogant to say thank you find boredom in life. They are often depressed, unhappy and lived an empty life. - Sesan Kareem
The world is a navy in an empty ocean. - Dejan Stojanovic
Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind. - Gerhard Ebeling
You must however pay attention to the fact that we don’t only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc. - Sunday Adelaja
When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your space can be filled with what is new, and maybe even upgraded. Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
...And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent. - Nikolas Schreck
Moments of suffering are meant to empty us so that we may have the potential to tap into our truest depths. - Kamand Kojouri
Soulmates are those people who will enter your life, fix it when it is broken, fill it when it is empty, and shower it with love when it is in drought. These people are not perfect, but they make every bit of your life, perfect for you. - Dhie S.
A busy life is an empty life. - Debasish Mridha
Belief & Trust should be deep from mind & heart. Love is just emotional...without Belief & Trust, love is like an empty bottle. Only the outer layer will be present, the inside will be ALWAYS hollow.. - Shibin Thomas
Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise,prefer it full. - Tom Althouse
Meditate, Clear, Calm, Center, Ground, Empty your mind, Stillness. Be receptive to a new approach. Believe in the possibilities of new opportunities. - Akiroq Brost
If a person advises others to beg to be happy, then instantly the people ought to make sure that his/her own bag is not empty of happiness. - Anuj Somany
It's time to forget about the past, To wash away what happened last, Hide behind an empty face, Don't act too much, just say, 'Cause this is just a game. - 30 Seconds to Mars
Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. - Demosthenes
Your world is just as empty as your heart! - Cass van Krah
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex. - Andrew Smith
Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise! - Nikhil Karke
He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes. - Craig Raine
Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you - John Zea
When a bumptious person can’t satiate oneself with an empty praise from others, s/he may go a step further to organize a get-together to bring all people of own nature under a single roof to meet, deliberate, celebrate, collaborate, greet, treat , appreciate or even felicitate one another. - Anuj Somany
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors - Arthur W. Pink
Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment - Munia Khan
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.- My Bestfriend's Girl - - Dorothy Koomson
Only love can fill an empty heart with kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Like a kiss, the pain which envelops us will leave and in it's place there will be an empty pit. - Colten Charles Baker
Life is not fair; you do what it takes and at the end, you are the only person going home with empty hands. - M.F. Moonzajer
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day. - Ernest Hemingway
The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they belong, and never look back. - Ena Snow
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. - Cosino DeGregrio
Some say the glass is half full and blush,Some say it’s half empty and sink,I feel you are in the midst of,reaching out for another awesome drink! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room") - Erik Pevernagie
I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty, I told her.Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring. - Bill Cosby
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. - Gabriel García Márquez
Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power. - Thomas Gordon
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. - Elaine Liner
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. - Mother Teresa
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me? - Morrissey
To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan
As I empty my head, I feel wonderful and alive. Sometimes my creation is as beautiful as the feeling it produces, but most often it has to go through many changes before it is considered good enough for public consumption. - Faye E. Robinson
A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks. - Michael Faudet
Be with people for whom your empty pocket does not matter. - Pratik Akkawar
Life is neither misery nor bliss. Life is an empty canvas, paint your life with color of your choice, start with a day. Let horses of your imagination run wild. - Jasz Gill
Empty baggage of the past, travel light in the Light! - Margie Verdan
all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair on a combin the dissolving moonlight. - Charles Bukowski
Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. - Francis Quarles
If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack,as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul. - Anthony Liccione
Because I know if I sit down and start to write out how it feels…. it all becomes too real… the pain becomes too much. But that's the weird part because I feel so empty, like there no longer is a heart living where there used to be one, so why am I feeling pain? - Chriselle Ravadilla
Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air. - Robert Fanney
The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over a trivial point and be thankful you have something to drink. - Richelle E. Goodrich
All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style. - Stefan Molyneux
Everything is all right,When you’re here,When you’re right next to me,When my hand is in yours,Don’t leave me,Don’t leave me empty handed. - Elizabeth Brooks
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace. - L.R. Knost
An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings. - Günter Grass
Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment. - Grigoris Deoudis
The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. - Unknown
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. - Eric Hoffer
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind. - E'yen A. Gardner
Without love, life is empty and has no beauty. - Debasish Mridha
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron
To have loved, to have lost and to be so empty when love is forgotten and not shared is an empty heart that's always whispering "fill me"~bns - Bluenscottish
Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her. - Coco J. Ginger
Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty. - Munia Khan
An unholy altered state of mindStalking with intent from behindThe needless lonely empty timeThat’s filled my life- that’s so unkind - Vin Romano
How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it? - Shannon L. Alder
You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. - Rumman Bin Sadiq
Start looking at the glass as half full and not half empty, a positive life is secondary to you being positive. - Unarine Ramaru
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. - Danny Gregory
To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril. - Stefan Molyneux
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. - Thomas Jefferson
Life becomes empty if we fill it with worthless thoughts and deeds. - Debasish Mridha
When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle. - Gail Davis
A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy. - Shaun Hick
I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. - Michael Faudet
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. - Socrates
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers. - Plato
Give your time to people who will appreciate it because if you don't you will soon feel alone and empty. Fill yourself with love wherever you can even it it's your own because if you don't love you, you will not realize when someone else does. - Cindy R. Dancy
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. - Stevie Nicks
A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside; an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee
I walk these lonely streets at dark. Just me and the night; crowded head, empty heart. - John Mark Green
There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? - Barbara Kingsolver
The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous. - Dina Zettira Putri
You said you love me, how could words be so empty - Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. - Jeff Lindsay
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty. - Jim Carroll
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? - Michelangelo Buonarroti
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