Emptiness Quotes - Page 17

• Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

  Grigori Perelman

  Running, Opportunity, Giving

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• The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

  Paul Althaus

  Easter, Jerusalem, Facts

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• There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

  Octavian Paler

  Sad Life, Inability, Wilderness

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• Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

  Gautama Buddha

  Desire, Might, Wonder

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• I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.

  Bobby Vinton

  Summer, Goodbye, Lonely

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• You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Names, Long, Gone

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• Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Cheating, Stealing, Empty

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 15 (1862)

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• So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us be careful of how we fill it. The simplest is: Spirit or Emptiness is unqualifiable, but it is not inert and unyielding, for it gives rise to manifestation itself: new forms emerge, and that creativity is ultimate. Emptiness, creativity, holons.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Creativity, Simple

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Entertainment

  "A Calendar of Wisdom". Book by Leo Tolstoy (1910). Translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Inherit The Wind, Overzealous, Left

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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• The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

  James Altucher

  Motivation, Fire, Light

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• Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Ignorance, Virtue, Critics

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• The future exists only in our imagination
  it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
  that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
  listening in the silence
  until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.

  Dawna Markova

  Voice, Imagination, Waiting

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• Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!.

  Zhuangzi

  Cutting, Worry, Tree

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• Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

  Peter Gabriel

  Broken Heart, Letting Go, Hurt

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• When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Trying, Range, Emptiness Inside

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• For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

  Patrick Modiano

  Summer, Past, Long

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• Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.  Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins.  Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought.  When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away.  But it doesn't go away.  So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Loneliness, Book, Class

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• All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

  Wayne Muller

  Blow, Wind, Reeds

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.46, Bantam

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• The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.

  Tash

  Years, Pulse, Covering

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• You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

  Tim Tharp

  Lasts, Rest Of Your Life, Plant

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.83, Scholastic UK

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• What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

  Dogen

  Reality, Fire, Icicles

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• Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sadness, Heart, Knowing

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• The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Loneliness, Heart

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Fullness, Knows

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