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“They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.”

“He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.”

Way Persons Hard Path Sky Bird Empty Release Buddhist Dwelling Dwelling Place

Author:Gautama Buddha

“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.”

People Mind Wisdom Spiritual Realizing Meditation Empty Scared Void

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.”

Want Light Lasts Turns Left Sex Sides Dark Worry Struggle Fire Sorrow Empty Stronger Tired Finals Rage Spots Ease Urges Bullets Thirst Suicidal Halfway Rip Caverns

Author:Jean Hegland

“How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?”

Inspirational Standing Rivers Empty Knees Abundance Hippie

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.”

House Empty Debate Beer Disputes Drunkards Empty Houses

Author:Publilius Syrus

“May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.”

May Hands Empty Saint Deeds Serving Others Empty Hands

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”

Mind Home Suffering Space Silence Empty Silence Is Awakened Empty Space

Author:Gautama Buddha

“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.”

World Way Feels Mind Looks Heart Joy Fall House Meditation Quiet Empty Rising Empty Houses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."”

Sound Dad Empty Drinking My Dad Bottles Hobbies Alcoholics Empty Bottles

Author:Stewart Francis

“Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!”

Christianity Gun Empty Doctrine Barrels

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.”

Source: Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness

“Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.”

Thinking Spiritual Lines Failing Empty Spokes Over You Godly Between The Lines Empty Places

Author:Lonni Collins Pratt

“I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.”

Made Sometimes Watches Empty Wine Notes Bottles Evaluation Bottles Of Wine

Book:A Carafe of Red

Source: A Carafe of Red

“A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.”

Bigs Learning Teaching Empty Tiny Holes Buckets

Author:Cynthia Lewis

“Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.”

Way Feels Joy Judgment Empty Hatred Boat Generosity Load Craving Seekers

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.”

Knows Joy Empty Karma Emptiness Free Yourself Good Karma

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.”

Hard States Home Easy Focus Empty Chaos Productive Online Perpetual Apartment Distracted Procrastinating

Author:Elissa Schappell

“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.”

Asks Perfect Empty Letters Forks Fork In The Road Wishbones

Book:Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler

Source: Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler

“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 to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.”

Knows Said Causes Depends Empty Productions Emptiness Inherent

Author: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 until now, letting only God live in one's heart.”

Mind Firsts Heart Self Praying Empty Casts

Author: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 two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.”

Ifs Heart Two Form Written Figures Thousand Perception Empty Filled Clean Tongue Perceive Bliss Two Things Emptiness Sensory Tablets Sensory Perception

Author: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.”

Heart Divine Empty Oneness Emptiness Gnosis

Author: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 a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Might Turns Next Waiting Painting Band Paper Empty Sentences Observation Blank Canvas Portraits Sheets Masterpiece Arrivals Warrants Empty Canvas

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.”

Home Form House Space Doors Design Wall Window Empty Essence Thirty Wheels Spokes Pot Clay Space Between Empty Space Hub Windows And Doors

Author:Laozi

“See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.”

Mind Faces Waste Empty Prison Hip Hop Rap Bars Rhyme

Author:Lord Finesse

“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 on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.”

Reality Together House Building Losing Empty Scared I Realized

Author: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, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”

Doe Country Reality Beautiful Planets Travel Empty Fingers Smell Print Bottles Thank God Desirable Embarrassing Abstraction Ants Tourists Tourism Coca Cola

Book:A World of Strangers

Source: A World of Strangers

“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 stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.”

People Thinking Want Feels Humans Wells Facts Stories Reality Faces Order Nations Sides Views Protect Empty Filled Including Ugly Officials Want U Affirmative

Author: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 religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.”

World Mind Two Ideas Different Reality Christian Taken Meditation Concepts Empty Assuming Contemplation Eastern Worlds Apart

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“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 morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive”

May Stills Might Remember Hope Speak Fear Morning Sun Heard Return Empty Silent Our Words Sun Rise Indigestion Sun Set

Book:The Black Unicorn: Poems

Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems

“What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?”

Millions Empty Aviation September Missiles September 11 Tents Air Power Airpower

Author:George W. Bush

“'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.”

Men Inspirational Giving Inspiration Government Motivational Motivation Liberty Theory Equal Empty Give Me Clever Consent Consent Of The Governed

Author: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 keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.”

Ifs Trying Humans Body Spirit Found Strong Secret Bears Circumstances Survival Capacity Empty Conviction Enormous Stomach Tested Human Body Surviving Unbearable Deprivation Adjusting

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.”

Ifs Opportunity Half Seeing Perception Majors Empty Glasses Innovative Half Full Half Empty

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“A secret is powerful when it is empty.”

Powerful Secret Empty

Author:Umberto Eco

“We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.”

Numbers Violence Involved Drug Bed Empty Abuse Rate Alcohol Factors Shelter Domestic Violence Homicide Drug Abuse Alcohol Abuse

Author:Diane Birch

“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.”

Thinking Men Mind Speech Empty Uprising

Author:Sophocles

“... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.”

Light Darkness Doors Cold Empty Ice Staring Conformity Non Conformity Fridges Purring

Author:Hallgrimur Helgason

“The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.”

Knows Life Important Enough Language Easy Space Empty Warrior God Love Empty Space Important Words Small Words

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Space Loneliness Empty Cinema Empty Space

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.”

Felt Successful Empty

Author:Boy George

“It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.”

Thinking Knows Together Night Walks Rooms Empty Thieves Mum Emergencies Neat Shattered Back Together Tidy Miscarriage Emergency Room Neat And Tidy

Author:Tori Amos

“You can't save souls in an empty church.”

Soul Church Empty

Book:The Unpublished David Ogilvy

Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy

“You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.”

People Feelings Strong Struggle Masters Judgment Empty Intuition Posts Servant Reasoning Guts Serving Justification Elephants Constructs Riders Gut Feelings

Book:The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”

Men I Can Space Walks Stage Needed Empty Theatre Engaged Empty Space

Book:The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”

Perspective Empty Ships Bottles Lighthouse Letter In A Bottle Empty Bottles

Author:Charles Simic

“A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.”

Light Seems Causes Fronts Flow Empty Green Chains Destination Parking Unbroken Murmuring Green Lights

Book:One More Strain of Praise

Source: One More Strain of Praise

“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”

Whole Sky Safe Empty Wide

Book:The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places

Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places

“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”

Source: Waterland

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