Best empty & needed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.”

Mind Firsts Kind Nature Realizing Accepting Steps Practice Doubt Possibility Ready Needed Habit Empty Originals Innocence Experts Emptiness Flash Inquiry Beginners

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

Source: A Life in Letters

“I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.”

Source: Chronicles: Volume One

“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”

Ifs Body Felt Grief Tears Needed Empty Cleansing

Book:The Giver Quartet

Source: The Giver Quartet

“I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Feelings Hands Eye Night Universe Four Needed Moon Rain Empty Mirrors Green Clock Insects Completeness Descending Green Eyes

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.”

Knows Heart Said Dream Faces Realizing Dark White Common Half Needed Empty Victim Corners Expected Ice Occasions Deep Down Numb Burnt Out

Author:Dean Koontz

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Life Feelings Needed Empty Emptiness Completeness

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.”

Would Be Father Left Water Months Needed Empty Glasses Bars Piano Canada Drank Dwarfs

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?”

People Beautiful Behinds Needed Empty Assuming Shells Insensitive Empty Shell

Author:Mary Balogh

“Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.”

Needed Empty Tricks Handy

Book:The Six Rules of Maybe

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.”

Ifs Way Mind Kind Turns Forget Brain Morning Worry Television Needed Empty Tables Screens If I Could Remove Blank Clicks Turn Off

Author:Marian Keyes

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Ifs World Mind Might House Bits Poor Study Pieces Broken Needed Empty Shoes Treasure Cinema Interfere Furniture Palaces Rubbish Bits And Pieces Empty Mind Sweepstakes

Author:Frank McCourt

“A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I`m not saying stop doing, stop action; I`m not saying that. I am saying that whatsoever you are doing, let it be just an outside activity. Inside become feminine, silent, doors opened, empty, waiting.”

Action Waiting Doors Needed Activity Empty Silent Emptiness Feminine Womb

Author:Rajneesh

“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

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