Best empty & way Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”

Way Needs Humans Said Soul Home Eye Earth Voice Rooms Right Now Empty Thanks Dawn Extras Helpful Gates Strain Hints

Author:Kiersten White

“There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.”

Way Life Needs May Problem Light Turns Energy Fun Darkness Battle Empty Available Spending Happy Life Problem Solving Fulfilling Live Your Life Hearted Turn-on Effortless

Author:Andreas Moritz

“The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.”

Way Mind Long Fall Loses Awareness Empty Appearance Mortals Clinging

Author:Bodhidharma

“The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.”

People Way Want Mind Firsts Country Wanted Dies Understanding Land Empty Complexes Intimacy Complexity Valleys Ecology Frantic Country Life Old Life Undercut

Author:William Kittredge

“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

“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.”

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.”

World Way Firsts Earth Night Found Heaven Christ Wonder Creation Garden Stones Empty Thirds Died Graves Evening Dawn Gardener Semblance New Earth Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

“Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.”

Way Mind Art Dying Empty Ambitious Fluidity Empty Mind

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

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

“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?”

World Way Ends Matter Moving Order Fall Stars Sun Planets Empty Arise Vain Fixed Hinder Dense Comets Orbs

Author:Isaac Newton

“I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.”

People Way Feels Trying I Can Reality Seems Able Knowing Please My Friends Commitment Empty Exciting Come Up Substance Expecting Family And Friends Frustrating Airports Expecting Something

Author:Tim Allen

“It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.”

Way Energy Views Information Empty Crucial Vessel Fluid Mislead Empty Vessels

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“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

“Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]”

Way Wealth Poverty Empty Ads Ants No Friends Departed Barns

Author:Ovid

“one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.”

People Ifs Way Giving Littles Sometimes Enough Personality Empty Cups One Way Desert Deprivation Empty Cup

Author:Peggy Noonan

“Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.”

Ifs Way Spirit My Own Empty Music And Lyrics

Author:Joan Jett

“I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...”

“The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.”

“It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.”

People Way Belief Sides Simple All Things Empty Buddhist Cosmology Simple Ways

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Made Book Matter Problem Light Form Passion Differences Fire Written Students Empty Filled Journal Filled In

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .”

Ifs Way Wells Existence Our Lives Empty Emptiness Another Way Elevating Non Existence

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.”

Men Way Humans Made Stills Helping Christian Form Found Christ Deals Liberty Ought Empty Neighbor Servant Human Form

Book:Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

“There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.”

Way Self Enough Turns Fall Individual Virtue Pieces Arms Empty Ultimate One Way Useless Breasts Pessimism Contempt Sole Recognizing Renunciation Insignificance Folding

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.”

“Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.”

“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.”

“Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.”

Way Wealth Dark Answers Steps Fate Sadness Sorrow Sad Empty Weight My Way Gates Laughed Load Worthless Grim Abode

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.”

Way Years Real Country Whole Shows Feelings Film Spirit Emotion Behinds Forever Photography Empty Landscape Memorable Geography Stay With Me Good Photography Stay With Me Forever

Author:Martin Scorsese

“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.”

“Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.”

Way Trying Mind Firsts Spirit Lying Song Forget Creative Approach Conscious First Time Empty Guitar One Way Layers Subconscious Conscious Mind Forget Everything Creative Spirit

Author:Edge

“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.”

Way Should Different Together Eternal Capacity Empty Profound Awakening Tension Remarkable Capture Earnest Mockery Detached Resonance Jest Earnestness Insipid Brash

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.”

People Way Pleasure Worst Becoming Crosses Empty Graves Appeals Faithful Abandoned Shallow Fidelity Covenant Being Faithful Obstruction

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.”

Way Needs Giving Wells Stills Hands Jesus Christ Accepting Forever Drink Offers Eternal Empty Died Asking Raises Cups Invitations Eternal Life Risen Meaning Life Fountainhead Empty Hands

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.”

Thinking Way Mind Ideas States Use Fighting Clear Goes On Empty Starting Technique Best Way Gigs

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.”

“I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.”

Thinking Way Want Years Artist Natural Space Produce Creating Empty Evolve Emptiness Traps Being An Artist Empty Space

Author:Meredith Monk

“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

“Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.”

Way Heart Use Purpose Poor Grace Empty Vessel Saviour Using Me Empty Vessels

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.”

Way Happens House Left Strange Empty Moved Disappear Phenomenon Host Guests Strange Phenomena

Author:Rajneesh

“And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.”

Way Feels Wells Persons Said I Can Remember Church Interesting Talking Heard Fans Tears Devil Empty Organization Radio Comedian Brown Ceo Humorists

Author:Nick Lowe

“Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed to become secretaries. That's the way they entered the work force. Then we began to educate them because they had to be educated. But it wasn't until after World War II that most of the great universities of this country became coeducational.”

Men World Way Made War Country Force Stuff Empty University Educated War Of The Worlds Educate World War Ii Nurse World War I Secretary Administrative

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Maybe tweeting is a more appealing method of getting your thoughts out to the masses a little bit more often. That's the only way I consider it. Otherwise, I do it for the fans' purposes; it's definitely not to try to empty my brain out to anybody else.”

Way Trying Littles Purpose Bits Brain Fans Little Bit Mass Empty Method

Author:Joe Maddon

“If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.”

Ifs Way Writing House Empty My Time Bottles Gave Up Obsessive Bombing Soda Skyscraper Yarn

Author:Eden Robinson

“If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.”

Ifs Way Long Whole Beautiful Turns Next Opportunity Perfect Waste Benefits Long Time Empty Prepared Lifetime Patterns Best Way Next Time Haul Long Haul Samsara

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.”

Way Should Children Moving Energy Felt Empty Up And Down Spine

Author:Laura Huxley

“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

“A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.”

“There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!”

People Thinking World Way Important Fashion Empty Important Things Shoes Fashion Business

Author:Iris Apfel

“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

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