Empty Quote by Richard Ford Download Open image “Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.” — Richard Ford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empty Happiness Life
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have a missing gap in our lives. We just have to focus and find the missing link for happiness to come back… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It will take time for us all to understand what has happened to us, but it is a joy to be surrounded by such… — Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford 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 empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let… — Kim Alexis Copy Share
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. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
“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 voice level. Blaine grinned at him lopsidedly and giggled, almost choking. He slapped the table, knocking his empty glass over. “Ye-ss, I am! Don’t ssup-pose you – think I co-uld ssit here an’ calmly wait t’die… — Christina Engela Copy Share
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 they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
