Best empty & looks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.”

Looks Ideas Empty Prejudice No Idea

Author:Rajneesh

“At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Seems Journey Sky Becoming Empty Flash Lightning Illuminating

Author:Adyashanti

“If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.”

Ifs Looks Seems Empty Rage Emptiness

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

Ifs Men Giving Looks White Money Hell Society Empty Bottom Superiors Convince Pockets Black People Superiority Lowest Presidency White Man Convincing Noticing

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is no duality, no observer, and nothing observed. Simply rest in this transparent, nondual present awareness. Make yourself at home in the natural state of pure presence, just being, not doing anything in particular.”

Looks States Home Natural Awareness Particular Pure Empty Naked Just Being Superficial Observers Transparent Duality Ripple

Author:Jamgon Kongtrul

“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.”

Wells Looks States Light Law Social Views Modern Ought Empty Command Sovereign Sovereignty Social Change Rapids Precedent Looking To The Future

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“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

“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”

“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.”

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.”

Way Needs Looks May Children Spirit Effort Sacrifice Personality Development Adults Empty Filled Constant Guides Convinced Look Up Helpless Lacking Behalf Zeal

Author:Maria Montessori

“Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Body Difficult Models Empty Negativity Labeling

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.”

World Wells Looks Might Eye This World Empty Tired Look Up Ennui

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.”

Thinking Looks Stuff Half Empty Half Full Half Empty

Author:Pauly Shore

“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.”

“If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.”

“Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.”

Looks Remember Given Half Empty Glasses Each Day Half Full Half Empty Live Each Day Gifts Of Life Glass Half Full

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!”

Looks Persons Actors Half Negative Empty Glasses Thinker Hallelujah Half Full Half Empty Positive Thinker

Author:Maya Angelou

“One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.”

Want Mind Looks Time Fear Seeing Empty Function Emptiness

Book:On Fear

Source: On Fear

“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

“The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.”

People Looks Mean Fall Interesting Seeing Clothes Empty Magazines

Author:Kim Gordon

“99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.”

People World Looks Perfect Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Nobody's Perfect

Author:Morris Chestnut

“You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.”

Looks Desire Speak Lord Authority Empty Angry Asceticism Bidding Empty Words

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.”

Men Looks Empty Glasses Philosopher

Author:Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

“The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.”

Source: From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel

“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

“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

“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

“The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.”

Looks Hard Earth Pain Joy Suffering Hard Work Empty Disappointment Seeds Emptiness Harvest Crops Sowing Sowing Seeds Suffering Pain

Book:A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.”

Way Looks Talking Century Painting Europe Empty East Emptiness Minors Location Asia Nineteenth Century East Asia

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”

World Way Looks Effort Empty Selfish California Void Pacific

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.”

“There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa”

“You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.”

Thinking Knows World Looks Mean Littles Sometimes Special Cold Walking Window Empty Okay Clouds Planes Best Things Bags Silver Wet Peanuts Aeroplanes Special Places Delirium

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.”

Looks Hands Eye Found Black Dark Empty Green Moved Depth Leaving Fixed Pairs Blank Look At Me Snape Green Eyes Hand Holding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

Looks Children Stills Body Hands Light Eye Faces Moving Animal Hair Pure Empty Mirrors Glasses Bones Shoulders Cups Hips Pale Cages Skulls Thighs Seventeen Ribs Bruised Rib Cage

Book:The Hanged Man

Source: The Hanged Man

“I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.”

Thinking Knows Humans Looks Children Life Is Stars Born Human Beings Our Lives Alive Sky Wind Empty Nonsense Have Faith Cranes Stars In The Sky

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”

Believe Looks Country Sky Empty Luck Disappear Breakfast Believe In Me Vague Thunder Good Luck Breakfast At Tiffanys Empty Places

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.”

Ifs World Looks Has Beens Whole Dies Fall Passion Fate Trouble Objects Masters Goes On Personality Labor Empty Historical Calm Casts Whole Life Enjoyment Kernel Hull

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.”

“I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.”

Ifs Looks Light Turns Sun Gone Clear Sky Drink Empty Blue Heavy Ice Celebrate Get Better If I Could Lakes Mist Icicles Light Blue

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.”

Looks Real Ends Light Found Tree Horror Bed Shadow Cat Empty Fats Sat Meaningless Blackness Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

Looks Space Empty Filled Who You Are Empty Space

Book:Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.”

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”

“Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.”

Ifs Looks Children Home Eye Written Blood Love You Mouths Red Empty Mad Misery Fishes Dawn Coming Home Swim Sonnet Champagne Fingernails Fowl Sad Life Herring Red Herrings

Book:Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust

“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity”

Thinking Knows Looks Eye Faces Fall Girl Half Subjects Changed Mets Empty Sexy Clever His Eyes Desperate Sincerity Odds Cheerful Mockery You Changed

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Said Two Truth Half Food Type Empty Bigger Glasses Excuse Beer Discworld Excuse Me Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pinching

Author:Terry Pratchett

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