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• You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moments, Given, Can Do

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Essay on the Freedom of the Will”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

  Michael Shermer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Struggle

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• We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Practice, Body, Posture

  Complete Collection of Sawaki Kodo, vol. 15, p. 336, 1966.

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• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

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• There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

  Charles Petzold

  Space, Causes, Instruction

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• I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

  Phyllis Diller

  Believe, Book, Bed

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• If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

  R. C. Sproul

  Ifs

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.36, David C Cook

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• There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Laughter, Joy, Comfort

  "31 Free Ways To Find Happiness" by Sandra Magsamen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I thought I knew it all. Again, I knew absolutely nothing.

  Robert Pattinson

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• Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

  Suzy Kassem

  Common Sense, Kind, Speak

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• What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music, we give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination — we give a form of pulsating art to life itself; we give it to our characters and we give it to our audiences. Nothing, absolutely nothing remains for us save the pleasure of having given pleasure.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Character, Essence

  "To the Director and Playwright".

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• Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

  Diana Vreeland

  Dream, Home, Thinking

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.

  Russ Feingold

  Diversity, Trying, Littles

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• I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.

  Michael Gira

  Philosophy, Reading, School

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• I’d like to have enough time and quiet
  To think about absolutely nothing,
  To not ever feel myself living,
  To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

  Al Berto

  Eye, Thinking, Enough Time

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• I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Mother, Struggle

  "Gwyneth Paltrow cooks up book, record deals" by Arienne Thompson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.

  David J

  Knowing, Giving, Achievement

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• History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Example, Want

  Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

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• Being great involves luck, and unique circumstances, and a lot of other forces beyond your control. You can’t just make it happen by working more or trying harder.
  There is an irony here, of course. The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.

  Charles Wheelan

  Unique, Thinking, Luck

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• I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

  Bela Bartok

  Music

  Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).

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• I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

  Richard Briers

  People, Acting, Taught

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• You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

  Bryan Clay

  Steps, Tough, Push Yourself

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• I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

  Ricky Jay

  Century, 20th Century, Knows

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