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• If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Inspiration, Victory

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  "The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical". Book editing by George Offor, Blackie and son, p. 623, 1858.

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

  Judith Wright

  Hurt, Heart, Creative

  "There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions".

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• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  Sophocles

  Men, Thinking, Uprising

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• Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Christian, Hurt

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.45, New World Library

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• Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong Women, Taken, Heart

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dark, Half Empty, Sides

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• It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Doors, Brain, Vices

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• Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

  Laozi

  Nature, Watches, Way

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• When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fear, World, Shapes

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.78, Vintage Canada

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• Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

  Alan Guth

  Average, Space, Realizing

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• Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

  Mario Cuomo

  Sports, Drug, World

  Commencement Address at Iona College on June 03, 1984. "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Fear, Men, Air

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• Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

  Eleanor Brown

  Selfish, Empty Vessels, Care

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• Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Running, Fire, Long

  Writings by Wilhelm Reich, April 19, 1951.

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• 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!

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Philosophy, Rain, Past

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

  Jesse Browner

  Crush, Dream, Fear

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

  Nick Flynn

  Heart, Sunday, Bye

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• We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
  Without them, we are empty.

  Daisy Whitney

  Ideas, People, Juicy

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• As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

  Will Shortz

  Space, Natural, Compulsion

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• We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Listening Ear, Space, People

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• We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

  Jerry Springer

  Empty Vessels, Moral, Born

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• Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Single Mom, Thinking, Essence

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