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“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 them have space and learn without me.”

Knows Men Firsts Bigs Care Strong Realizing Space Son Mom Needed Empty Independent Raised Hardest God Love My Son Nests Strong Independent Empty Nest

Author:Kim Alexis

“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Reality Lying Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Empty Oneself Liberation Delusion Lying Down

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”

Knows Seems Beauty Kindness Cutting Alive Empty Bones Desert Untouchables

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”

Ifs Knows Men World Doe Self Pain Suffering Wish Pleasure Existence Watches Flow Rivers Empty Likes Lasting One Man Dislike Void Stable Another Man Accord True Peace Likes And Dislikes

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that they are in every other way identical to other prostitutes. They’re not better looking; they’re not smarter; they’re not classier; they’re not more charming. They probably give more blowjobs than any reasonable woman, right? And they are empty inside, but it’s also society’s fault.”

Knows Way Giving Know How Empty Faults Agency Restaurants Reasonable Smarter Charming Prostitution Identical Sushi Women Right Chopsticks

Author:Julie Klausner

“To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.”

Knows World Writing Done Desire Empty Boast Authorship

Book:The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.”

Knows Doubt Crazy Masters Fool Promise Empty No Doubt Madmen Squires Empty Promises

Book:The adventures of Don Quixote

Source: The adventures of Don Quixote

“It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.”

Ifs Knows Needs Mind Heart May Soul Numbers Objects Fool Highest Empty Perceive Exterior Great Souls

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.”

Knows Purpose Felt Focus Share Empty Unhappy Sat Interviews Unhealthy

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.”

Knows Mind Humans Wells Heart Soul Body Earth Women Known Possibility Kissing Empty Harmony Instruments Silent Flesh Adore Masterpiece Strain Crave Splendid Drains Eloquent

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”

Knows Needs Looks Book Bigs Space Imagine Wall Pages Empty Mirrors Boxes Over You Thick Elegant

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are a presence that lacks a voice, you create an empty space that another voice - a dominating voice that knows no boundaries - is only too happy to fill.”

Knows Voice Space Silence Support Position Empty Intention Boundaries Silence Is Status Quo Empty Space Dominating No Boundaries

Author:Justine Musk

“Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.”

Knows Mean Form Social Situation Behavior Empty Letters Debt Customers Friendly Reminders Really Mean Social Behavior

Author:Judith Martin

“Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.”

Knows Wells May Mean Doe Strong Sound Quality Photography Empty Weak Impact Photographer Visuals Originality Detachment Sentimentality Coherence

Author:Walker Evans

“He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.”

Knows Hands Games Winning Bears Empty Noise Nfl Jealous Eagles Tin Tin Cans

Author:Mike Ditka

“I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.”

Ifs Knows Want Wanted Happiness Empty Reviews

Author:Rita Hayworth

“I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.”

Knows Heart Soul Motivational Eye Waiting Knowing Sorrow Blessing Empty Filled Ill Fixed Prize Rejoice Weary Prayerful My Blessing Bombarded

Author:Shane Smith

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!”

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.”

Knows Wells Asks Powerful Pay Attention Taught Empty Species Starting Pay Attention Flexibility Cognitive Taught Us Learners Cognitive Science Empty Heads

Author:Paul Bloom

“Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.”

Knows Wells Reason Philosophy Reality Empty Philosophical Errors Rational Exploration Realism God Knows Apprehension One Sided

Book:Philosophy of right

Source: Philosophy of right

“Lord, You have told me who You are, You have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know You to be that blessed 'gift of God' which alone can save and satisfy my soul. The depth and compass of heavenly love are manifested in You, and You have shown me, not my need only, but the sufficiency of Your grace and power to meet it. I am an empty sinner, You are a full Christ!”

Knows Needs Soul Christ Lord Grace Empty Mercy Blessed Who You Are Depth My Soul Sinner Heavenly Compass Gift From God Sufficiency Heavenly Love

Author:Susannah Spurgeon

“When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.”

Knows Hell Tears Taste Devil Shadow Empty Tongue Shedding Tears

Author:Kate Tempest

“I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.”

Knows Real Empty Misery Terror Fancy Anticipation

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.”

Knows Want Looks Shows Able Struggle Fame Empty Bluster

Author:Edgar Guest

“I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.”

Knows Should Kind I Can Wish Prayer Return Holy Empty Vanity Obedience My Wish

Book:King John and King Henry VIII

Source: King John and King Henry VIII

“I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Night Grief Company Sweet Despair Empty Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Company You Keep

Author:Jon Blais

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

People Knows Giving Real Guy Empty Give Me Cups Collections Plates Homeless Empty Cup

Author:Bo Burnham

“As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality.”

Knows Feels Matter Moments House Stars Enjoy Groups Planets My Family Empty Immortality Atoms Love My Family I Love My Family

Author:George Carlin

“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Empty Empty Mind

Author:Hamid Drake

“What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.”

People Knows Needs Lost Skills Direct Empty Paint Lists Variety Chairs Apartment Clue Doing You Maestro

Author:Tony Gilroy

“... It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Fall Interest Company Empty Company You Keep

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.”

“If you travel to the continent you never have any problems overtaking, this is the only country I know where the outside lane is congested and the two inner lanes are empty. It drives me crazy. I'm ashamed that is so typically British.”

Ifs Knows Two Country Problem Crazy Empty British Ashamed Continents Lanes Drive Me Crazy Overtaking

Author:Martin Shaw

“Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.”

Knows Mind Heart Empty Distance Separation

Book:Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

“A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."”

Knows Writing Home Age Party Empty Died Old Age Stomach Falsehood Epitaph Ragged Empty Stomach

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“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?”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.”

Knows Giving Helping Chance Silence Audience Conversation Empty Depth Sentences Pauses God Knows Communicators Babbling

Book:Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt

Source: Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt

“For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Two Different Father Sound Four Happened First Time Empty Add Make Sense Leaving Me Corny Tanks Different Directions Killing Yourself

Author:Paula White

“But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.”

Knows Guy Half Fire Negative Empty Glasses Fuel Leaks Nancy Half Empty Curmudgeon

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.”

Thinking Knows Character Term Half Empty Claims Bounds Glasses Boxes Optimistic Promoting Programmes Half Empty Reticence

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Mom Empty Hunger My Mom Stomach Shopping Reacting Empty Stomach

Author:Trevor Noah

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