Best empty & water Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.”

Turns Left Water Fire Our Lives Son Empty Wine Ems Pot

Author:Joanne Harris

“To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.”

Ifs Doe Dream Night Water Views Vision Sky Birth Empty Absolutes Profound Point Of View Grass Fixed Emptiness Flood Blades Moonlight Duality Night Sky Drop Of Water Blades Of Grass

Author:Adyashanti

“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”

“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”

Men Mean Water Dark Love You Circumstances Fairs Empty Fortune Harm Gambling Richness Voyages

Book:The Thinking Reed

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?”

Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.”

Hands Water Dark Rich Car Window Empty Gold Eggs Cracks Bottles Now And Then Minerals Fling Dazzling Delhi Water Bottles Bangles Mineral Water

Book:The White Tiger

Source: The White Tiger

“The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.”

Self Death Water Freedom Cutting Enlightenment Empty Universal Deeds Significance Sole Filling Swallowing Cabbage Cutting Off

Book:Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.”

World Hope Water Loss Empty Ships Islands Horizon

Book:Oblique light

Source: Oblique light

“Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.”

Heart Children Earth Spirit Mother Waiting Water Morning Creation Birth Empty Moved Filled Silent Breathing Cradle Like A Mother Breathing Life

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.”

Ifs Character Water Empty Glasses

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“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

“Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.”

People Want Feels Problem Water Effects Empty Property Appreciation Pollution Drought Texan Pesticides Empty Places

Author:Gail Collins

“We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.”

People Country Problem Running Water Band Resources Empty Entrepreneur Billions Chinese Settling

Author:Charles R. Morris

“If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.”

Ifs Water Empty Filled Gasoline Filled Up

Author:Chuck D

“The only thing that dictates whether I respond to someone is whether I have something interesting to say in return. I respond to people I don't know at all, when their tweet hauls a nice fresh bucket of water up out of me, but if it comes up empty then I just stay quiet.”

People Water Interesting Nice Quiet Empty Tweet Something Interesting

Author:Patricia Lockwood

“My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!”

Giving Philosophy Moments Past Remember Joy Enjoy Water Pleasure Grace Balance Drink Rain Empty Stranger Settling Little Things Remembering The Past Little Things In Life

Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice

“Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?”

Trying Facts Causes Water Dark Prove Findings Argument Stones Empty Teeth Hills My Time Rolling Pouring

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.”

“Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.”

Said Stills Use Left Water Love Is Sea Ocean Empty Dry Buckets Love Is Like

Book:The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Source: The Safe-Keeper's Secret

“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”

Inspirational Said Problem Water Half One Day Empty Philosophical Glasses Drank Half Full Half Empty

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.”

Littles Country Earth Water Space Tree Changed Expression Spring Singing Empty Rising Unexpected Subtle Tenderness Accents Replaced Grey Lanes Meadows Softness Harshness

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Asks Water Break Fire Sea Bird Shadow Rain Empty Rose Mere Can Not Quench Larks Love Rain Sea Birds

Book:The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.”

World Life Eye Universe Water Differences Gone Rain Flow Stones Empty Ears Boundaries Bowls Cactus Stargirl

Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.”

Men Moments Water Path Higher Glory Flow Empty Bless Lowest

Book:Humility

Source: Humility

“Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.”

Water Taken Empty Remains Pot Craftsmanship

Book:Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain

“It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water." He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt. "Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.”

Trying Made Eye Water Rooms Common Mouths Picks Empty Add Good Things Wide Tongue Coffee Dust Staring Shirts Instant His Eyes Dry Shakes Brown Pot Jars Powder Shovels Crunch

Author:Holly Black

“She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.”

Way Said Hands Water Compassion Empty Rage Warrior Bowls

Book:Range of Ghosts

Source: Range of Ghosts

“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.”

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”

Water Empty Clean Dirty Pitcher Dirty Water

Author:Idries Shah

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”

Way Life Is Water Space Lessons Empty Nine Here And Now Tissues Empty Space

Author:Graham Swift

“Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.”

Ideas Body Fighting Water Realizing Son Empty Good Ideas Charging Poseidon Bodies Of Water

Author:Rick Riordan

“You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.”

People Want Writing Ideas Running Water Empty Breaths Smell Emptiness Filling Filling Up

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

“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's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.”

Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

“The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.”

Mind Body Water Realizing Moon Empty Calm Warrior Martial Arts Reflecting Brilliance Samurai Way Of The Warrior Empty Mind

Author:Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

Firsts Order Growth Water Inspiring Learning Taste Empty Cups Empty Mind Empty Cup

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.”

Knows Firsts Ideas Order Water Taste My Friends Empty Starting Cups Fixed Emptiness Do You Know Starting Point

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.”

Ifs Matter Motivation Water Half Empty Entrepreneur Glasses Pouring Half Full Half Empty

Author:Mark Cuban

“Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.”

Source: Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness

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