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“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

“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”

Ifs Knows Men World Doe Self Pain Suffering Wish Pleasure Existence Watches Flow Rivers Empty Likes Lasting One Man Dislike Void Stable Another Man Accord True Peace Likes And Dislikes

Author:Ajahn Chah

“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.”

Ifs I Can Mother Wish Felt Rooms Benefits Empty Performances Performers Teresa Hospice Empty Rooms

Author:Bea Arthur

“Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.”

Thinking Mean Would Be Jobs Left Wish Careers Keys Empty Be Good Good Job

Author:Brad Pitt

“Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the soul's journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.”

Ifs Believe Soul Purpose Asks Wish Answers Existence Practice Our Lives Journey Materials Conscious Empty Arise Abundance Spite Superficial Unanswered Authentic Life Queries

Author:Ilchi Lee

“I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.”

Knows Should Kind I Can Wish Prayer Return Holy Empty Vanity Obedience My Wish

Book:King John and King Henry VIII

Source: King John and King Henry VIII

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.”

Thinking Heart Stills Shows Faces Fall Wish Pieces Broken Hundred Empty Glasses Breasts Adore Rags Broken Glass

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.”

Ifs Knows Wanted Wish Darkness Shadow Empty Nurse Attolia

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.”

“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.”

Thinking Stills Passion Wish Sides Boys Love You Missing Empty Hot Warm Going Away Bottles Coke Empty Bottles

Book:All Over but the Shoutin'

Source: All Over but the Shoutin'

“I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)”

Has Beens I Can Whole Wish Months Despair Empty Heavy Overwhelming Void Pulling Numbness

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.”

Ifs World Wish Dark Empty Casts Holes Horde

Book:Horde

Source: Horde

“The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.”

Want Wish Empty Reincarnation Foe Purses

Author:Nicholas Breton