Best Empty Cup Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

“Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.”

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Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.”

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Author:Peggy Noonan

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

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Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.”

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Author:Bo Burnham

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”

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Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

Source: Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.”

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.”

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Book:Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry

Source: Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.”

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Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!”

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Author:Tae Yun Kim

“Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?”

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Author:Nyogen Senzaki

“No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.”

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Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.”

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Author:Alexander MacLaren