I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these…

How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its…

— Janet Fitch

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the…

— Kim Alexis

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

— John Hagee

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a…

— Al Smith

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.…

— Cesare Pavese

“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!” “Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his…

— Christina Engela

Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is…

— Jamgon Kongtrul

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

— Shiv Khera

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that…

— Laozi

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

— Anagarika Govinda

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

— Maria Montessori

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

— Dick Cavett

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect…

— Dan Savage