“As to the roaming of sages, They move in utter emptiness, Let their minds meander in the great nothingness; They run beyond… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“I opened the coffin. I was surprised again, although again I shouldn't have been. I was surprised that Dad wasn't there. In… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There was only one hope left to me - Andre. But could he fill this emptiness within me? Had he loved me… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
“From time to time, we all must go unto a landscape—be it inner or outer landscape—where there are no hiding places. Allowing… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
“And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried,… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the… — Tara Conklin Copy Share Image
“in the universal womb that is boundless space all forms of matter and energy occur as flux of the four elements, but… — longchenpa Copy Share Image
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I can begin to give God attributes. He's a counselor. He's a healer. He's a friend that sits closer than a brother.… — Paula White Copy Share Image
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course,… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
“Better to work for one's self alone. The public is so stupid. Who reads? And what do they read? And what do… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely… — Peter Craig Copy Share Image
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
