Empty Quotes

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Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way. — Gautama Buddha
Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. — Gautama Buddha
I focus best and am most productive when Iâ€™m working in a friendâ€™s empty apartment. Itâ€™s hard for me to work at home. Too easy… — Elissa Schappell
Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. — Marjorie Celona
Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said… — Gautama Buddha
To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed… — Masahisa Goi
If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for… — Ibn Ata Allah
When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it. — Ibn Ata Allah
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
I suspect that 280 figure is a bit low. The reality is it's probably closer to 700 to 1,000 (students) out of the 911 units.… — John Marshall
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was… — Hunter Tylo
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet,… — Nadine Gordimer
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own… — Bill Moyers
Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern… — Richard J. Foster
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by… — Heloise
And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the… — Audre Lorde
What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? — George W. Bush
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can… — Nelson Mandela
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities. — Peter Drucker

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