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“Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.”

Source: Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral

“It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

Doe Said Wisdom Motivational Today Fear Strength Tomorrow Sorrow Future Anxiety Empty Anxious Stress And Anxiety Empty Hands Overcoming Anxiety

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Speak Prayer Empty

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.”

Trying May Doe Would Be Pain Alive Cost Empty Grieving Nonsense Gaps Communion Those We Love

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong.”

Years Humans Doe Philosophy Science Nature Natural Rooms Company Years Ago Empty Scientist Accounts Dresses Brilliant Weed Replaced Elegant Respectable Fallacy Pseudo Exact Sciences Lumber

Author:Hermann Kolbe

“Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.”

Doe Philosophy Science Nature Space Empty Philosophical Vain Axioms Framed

Author:Thomas Browne

“He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.”

Men Believe Doe Soul Light Joy Poor Ideals Empty Sunshine Poor Man

Author:Robert Ley

“The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.”

Doe Religion Atheism Empty Proof Absurd Description Theist

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

Source: Atheism: The Case Against God

“Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.”

Doe Seems Perfection Empty Accomplishment Imperfect Exhausted Fullness Usefulness Tao Te Ching Leadership Great Accomplishment

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.”

People Wells Doe Matter Use Together Moving Young Pure Empty Contact Motive Sand Meaningless Sophisticated Formal Naive Machinery Scorn Politeness Formality Moving Parts Lubrication

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.”

Ifs Heart Doe Desire Suffering Dies Next Strong Grows Loses Tree Empty Affection Branches Emptiness Divided Vitality Cedars Empty Places

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“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