Empty Quote by Laurie Colwin Download Open image “Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.” — Laurie Colwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empty Empty space Fulfillment Longing Nostalgia Space Used
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings? — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.... — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
