Empty Quotes

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Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused.… — Laozi
He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind… — Annalee Skarin
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened… — Joseph Conrad
The empty nest is underrated. — Nora Ephron
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I… — Lord Byron
For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8… — John Fogerty
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them. — Samuel Johnson
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place,… — Peggy Noonan
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the… — Jean Baudrillard
When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked. — Jim Denevan
When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of… — E.W. Jackson
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we… — Cheryl Rainfield
Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow… — Adam Levine
But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me. — Eminem
I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty. — Lorraine Bracco
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. — Bruce Lee
Emptiness the starting point. â€” In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived… — Bruce Lee

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