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Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”

People Ifs Thinking Helping Past Loses Consequence Empty Weight Cake Throwing Plates Lose Weight Throwing Away

Author:Timothy B. Tyson

“Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)”

Thinking Needs Night Found Cities Late Empty Meetings Criminals Abandoned Commerce Woe Late Night Warehouse Clandestine Bewitched

Book:Tales of the Otherworld

Source: Tales of the Otherworld

“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“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

“And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Made Past Waiting Cold Mass Empty Suicide Commit Reasoning Gray Shells Parrots Empty Shell

Author:Sylvia Plath

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.”

Thinking Beautiful Dies Like You Ordinary Empty Rose You Are Beautiful Passerby

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Left Growing Empty Stronger Bones Bags Again And Again Growing Stronger

Book:Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

Source: Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

“Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.”

Thinking Littles Seems Empty Sugar Pills Intervention Misled Homeopathy

Book:Bad Science

Source: Bad Science

“What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.”

Ifs Thinking World Persons Next Space Secret Accepting Doors Empty Warrior Unexpected What If You Choose Doorways Another World Unexpected Things Secret Doors

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.”

Thinking Would Be Able School Empty Medical Medical School Stethoscope

Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel

Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel

“It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”

Thinking Way Ideas Helping Light Left Grace Empty Grateful Charm Desperate Isolated Charming Embarrassed Electricity Breeze Juice Bright Ideas Isolated Places

Author:Anne Lamott

“I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.”

Thinking Ideas Empty Stomach Good Ideas Back In Time Empty Stomach

Book:The Map of Time: A Novel

Source: The Map of Time: A Novel

“So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.”

Source: How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)

“Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! And he is--Oh, well! He is just himself, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me. But maybe you've loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don't need to explain; if you haven't, I can't explain.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Needs Believe Wells I Can Two Whole Seems Beautiful Hate Missing Havens Humour Empty I Hate Don't Believe Senses Whole World Moonlight Oh Well

Author:Jean Webster

“... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.”

Thinking Mind Soul Philosophy Capacity Empty Contemplation Stimulus Menace Incessant Fabrication Receptivity

Author:Josef Pieper

“Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.”

Thinking Mind Empty

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.”

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.”

Thinking World Way Firsts Children Doe Together Dies Space Wonder Imagine This World Brother Beats Empty Fingers Sorry Dare My Brother Bubbles Twins Soap Pulse Think Of Me Empty Space Soap Bubbles

Book:Fever

Source: Fever

“You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.”

Thinking Said Half Type Empty Grateful Glasses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Heart Feelings Felt Space Rooms Secret Happened Baby My Heart First Time Empty Staring Without You

Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.”

Thinking Knows Men Mean Doe Earth Universe Stars Differences Sitting Empty Endless Awake Emptiness Terrace

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior. “I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?” He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.” “Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass?”

People Thinking Knows Want Looks Guy Half Saws Fields Drink Empty Moved Glasses Interiors Castles Half Empty Hadrian

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.”

Thinking Joy Fall Felt Space Loneliness Empty Filled Falling In Love Most Amazing Empty Space

Book:The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”

“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”

Thinking Feels Should Humans Different Moments Might Imagination Memories Human Beings Worry Fantasy Our Lives Happened Percent Empty Difficulty Shame Sticks

Author:Joko Beck

“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”

Thinking Looks Cold Empty Edges Smell Evening Subtle Autumn Abandoned Scent Sweetness Breeze Circus Crisps Autumn Leaves Caramel Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke”

Ifs Thinking Space Regret Empty Filled Holes Instant Empty Space

Author:Nora Roberts

“He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy, and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being king.”

Thinking Trying Moments Moving Hate Rooms Attention Dog Return Kings Empty Died Court Rewards Spots Evening Privacy Tails Thrones His Love Gracious Brief Moments

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.”

Thinking Way Stills Feelings School Mother Father Space White Empty Stomach Empty Space Nausea

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.”

Thinking World Children I Can States Answers United United States Fire Quiet Empty Bones Dust Brands Stomach Dirt Honorable Deliberate Another World Damp Toothpaste Empty Stomach

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.”

People Thinking Needs Might Happens Beautiful Night Memories Rooms Laughing Seeing Expression Empty Idiot Criticize Autism Something Beautiful Empty Rooms Duvets

Author:Naoki Higashida

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“I used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar. I would put flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.”

People Thinking Wanted Used Women Cases Dad Walking Empty Tired Guitar My Dad Pops Neighborhood Vitamins Flintstones

Author:Kristen Wiig

“Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.”

People Thinking Inspirational Humor Bigs Half Empty Glasses Emptiness Half Full Half Empty

Author:George Carlin

“If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mean Matter Alive Empty Breathe Complaining Block Buddhist Emptiness Impermanence

Book:Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries

Source: Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries

“As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.”

Thinking Knows Giving Mind Form Quiet Authority Worship Capable Discovery Concerned Empty Arise Subtle Gossip Sensations Distraction Anxious Crude Deep Sea Snobbishness

Book:Commentaries on Living 2

Source: Commentaries on Living 2

“Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now - and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.”

Thinking Knows Moments Courses Names Waiting Hurt Forget Know How Tomorrow Projects Empty Greed Arise Present Moment Forget It Richness Lottery Future Thinking Tomorrow Never Comes

Author:Rajneesh

“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”

Thinking Men Mind Real States Philosophy Shows Happiness Evil Left Differences Doubt Greatness Empty Aim Checks No Doubt Emptiness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.”

Thinking Science Understanding Knowledge Concepts Empty Blind Unions Intuition Senses Arise

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.”

People Thinking Knows Inspirational Inspiration Hate Half Four Empty I Hate Grateful Entrepreneur Glasses Half Empty

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.”

Thinking Knows Life Heaven Path Plans Activity Fame Empty Infinite Awakening Wander

Book:Chuang tsu: Inner chapters

Source: Chuang tsu: Inner chapters

“The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring. In fact, you think that if your desires are fulfilled your miseries will disappear. In the first place they are never fulfilled; in the second place, if they are fulfilled, nothing is fulfilled by their fulfillment. You remain as empty as you have always been - or even more, because up to now you were occupied with a certain desire; now even that is fulfilled. A deep deep emptiness comes to you.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Facts Desire Certain Goes On Consequence Empty Misery Disappear Fulfillment Emptiness Fulfilled Second Place

Author:Rajneesh

“I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.”

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”

Ifs Thinking Love Feels Writing Mind Pain Pleasure Personality Empty Mad Contrary Torture Composition

Author:Lord Byron

“There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.”

Thinking Half Focus Creation Empty Glasses Abundance Extensions Cliche Half Full Half Empty

Author:Marianne Williamson

“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”

People Ifs Thinking Seems Empty Balls

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“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

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