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“Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.”

Self Care Concerned Empty Selfish Self Care Vessel Empty Vessels

“The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.”

Men Made Lying Waiting Sound Conversation Speech Empty Made It Fallen Futility Blight Wait For Me

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.”

Life Is Pleasure Illusion Empty This Life

Book:Leopardi: Poems and Prose

Source: Leopardi: Poems and Prose

“I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.”

Thinking Way Mind Ideas States Use Fighting Clear Goes On Empty Starting Technique Best Way Gigs

Author:Eddie Izzard

“The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.”

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.”

Feels Hard Causes One Thing Empty Innocent Misfortunes Trading Discontent Distortion Being Free Things That Are Hard

Author:Amy Ray

“A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.”

Knows Persons Happens Next Cities Situation New York Strange Walking Empty Competition New York City Pace Awkward Sidewalk Awkward Situations

Author:Aaron Karo

“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?”

“Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.”

“Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.”

Should Goal Differences Opinion Empty Surrender Mask Rebellion Cowardice Pathetic Prevailing Nonconformity Acquiescence

Book:The Organization Man

Source: The Organization Man

“If God is in Heaven, Hell is empty.”

Ifs Heaven Hell Empty Heaven Hell

Author:Kedar Joshi

“The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.”

Life Is Realizing Empty Accomplish

Author:Behdad Sami

“Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.”

“The bashful beggar has an empty purse.”

Empty Beggar Purses Bashful

Author:William Cranch Bond

“If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.”

People Ifs Thinking Space Principles Angel Empty Paint Empty Space Angelic

Book:Works: Modern painters

Source: Works: Modern painters

“An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.”

Conscience Empty

Author:Pascal Bruckner

“Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.”

Knows Persons Matter House Water Answers Walks Rooms Growing Huge Goes On Empty Pops Seeds Boat Slides Words Matter

Author:Rumi

“Money cannot fill an empty soul.”

Soul Empty Empty Souls

Author:Julia Cameron

“U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?”

Found Missing Weapons Empty Asking Iraq Chemicals Sean Inspectors

Author:Jay Leno

“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.”

Thinking Knows Two Home Lasts Sleep Family Brother Lessons My Family Empty My Brother Bottles Stomach Pills Couches Love My Family I Love My Family Paramedics Sleeping Pills Empty Bottles

Author:Emo Philips

“Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.”

Looks War Beautiful Girl Empty Paint Lazy Makeup Laziness Canvas Bleak No Makeup Empty Canvas War Paint

Author:Dane Cook

“You might be a redneck if you won't stop at a rest area if you have an empty beer can in the car.”

Ifs Might Car Areas Empty Beer Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Redneck Humor

Book:You Might Be A Redneck If ...This Is The Biggest Book You've Ever Read

Source: You Might Be A Redneck If ...This Is The Biggest Book You've Ever Read

“I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening!”

Thinking Faces Empty Tired Evening Staring Looking Back Think Of You Vacant Empty Life Good Evening

Author:Bill Hicks

“I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!”

Sitting Empty Glasses Bars

Author:Donald Glover

“Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.”

People Years Five Hundred Empty Mars

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.”

Needs Soul Hard Powerful Empty Climbs Thighs Empty Souls

Author:Daniel Tosh

“I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.”

I Can Eye Running Form Empty Cameras Glasses Stranger Emptiness Copies Tape Carbon Futility Touch Me

Author:David Wojnarowicz

“Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.”

Ifs Looks Eye Audience Empty Something New

Author:Joseph Kosuth

“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.”

Thinking Humans Certain Left Rooms Taken Wall Shadow Empty Mark Photograph Disappear Absence Etc Empty Rooms

Author:Mona Kuhn

“To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.”

Doe Ends Beautiful Forever Flower Mountain Ocean Empty Clouds Contrary Wander Streams Sand Mentality Depressing Washing Surf Canyons Empty Life Mountain Streams

Book:The Way of Zen

Source: The Way of Zen

“The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.”

Humans Suffering Offers Empty Philosopher Vain Therapy Human Suffering

Author:Epicurus

“Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.”

Mind Values Emotion Emotional Capacity Empty Fuel Inherent Motor

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.”

Country Generations Empty Our Country Wealthy Privileged Empowered

Book:Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future

Source: Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future

“Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!”

Knows Want Kind Soul Matter Dream Faces Form Lying Existence Divine Conscious My Friends Empty Impression Despite Glorious Void Sublime Launching Proclaiming

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.”

“I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.”

Thinking Way Want Years Artist Natural Space Produce Creating Empty Evolve Emptiness Traps Being An Artist Empty Space

Author:Meredith Monk

“If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.”

Ifs Perfect Crime Judgment Empty Victim Prison Crime Victims

Author:Claire McCaskill

“I like to have a drink or two, but I cut down on that. It was getting a little out of control. Two of the guys in the band don't even drink at all. We just riff off each other man. We're just so, so eye-to-eye with our sense of humour that we can just sit in an empty room and entertain ourselves for hours.”

Men Littles Two Eye Guy Hours Rooms Cutting Humour Drink Band Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Jordan Buckley

“The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not very active and empty of nutrients or it could be a toxic, polluted substance. That's what interests me as an environmentalist, because I think we should only produce the purest, finest things. Then there would be no toxic side effects. There would be no wastes, because everything would be used responsibly.”

Thinking Should Would Be Used Sides Interest Effects Produce Pure Waste Empty Active Tea Substance Chemistry Toxic Finest Environmentalist Side Effects Nutrients

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.”

Ifs Littles Use Easy Sound Empty Few Words

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?”

“Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.”

Ifs Looks Beautiful Faces Empty Mask Artificial Vacuums Eyelashes Beautiful Face Vacuous Empty Heads

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.”

Faces Purpose Voice Struggle Letting Go Empty Outcomes Have Faith Face Your Fears Self Trust

Author:Kano Jigoro

“What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.”

Wells Ideas Matter Character Strong Consciousness Fit Empty Impact Definitions Core Collections Attributes

Author:Kurt Busiek

“These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”

Tree Regret Roots Empty Instruction Monk Huts You Will Regret

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.”

Knows Way Lasts Heaven Christianity Laughing Empty Dancing Graves

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“You know what I like best about looking at the stars? Not the stars themselves, but all those empty spaces between the stars. That's where I can imagine traveling for ever and ever. That's where I can imagine infinity.”

Knows I Can Stars Space Imagine Empty Infinity Space Between Empty Space

Author:T.A. Barron

“Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.”

Way Heart Use Purpose Poor Grace Empty Vessel Saviour Using Me Empty Vessels

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.”

Trying Mind Creativity Sea Source Quiet Draws Empty Wave Surface Mood Calmness Restlessness Tranquil Contemplative Vacant

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“King Solomon set out on a course to work and live without reference to God at all. He concluded that without God in the picture, work is empty.- (Ecc. 2:11)... The path to really enjoying your job is to have a warm personal relationship with your Lord and Savior and to make Him the controlling center of each workday.”

Jobs Courses Enjoy Lord Path Kings Empty Warm Savior Personal Relationships Without God Solomon

Author:Doug Sherman

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