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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
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I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
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one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
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Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
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We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
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Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because… — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
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