Empty Quotes - Page 9

• When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Order, Hands, Tests

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• Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.

  Archie Fire Lame Deer

  Thinking, Mind, Holy

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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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• He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

  John Banville

  Fear, Dark, Space

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• To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Empty Life, Would Be

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

  Eleanor Brown

  Selfish, Empty Vessels, Care

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

  Nigahiga

  Glasses, Pessimistic, Half

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• Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

  Elton John

  Garden, Play

  Song: Empty Garden, Album: Jump Up, 1982

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• There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

  Gustav Klimt

  Long

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• When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.

  Rickson Gracie

  Fighting, Unique, Expectations

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• Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Buckets, Transformation

  "Marilyn Manson: Man That You Fear". Interview with Dan Epstein, www.revolvermag.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Imagination, Imagine

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Bird, Cages

  Song: Crucify, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

  Danny Gregory

  Art, Teaching, Use

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• When a person spends his entire day with no concern but Allah alone, Allah will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him; He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Worry, Needs

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• I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Fall, Thinking, Order

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Pockets, Obsessive Compulsive

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

  Epes Sargent

  Night, Window Panes, White

  Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.119

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• The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

  Julian Jaynes

  Space, Mind, Psychological

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.365, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  House, Benefits, Attacking

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.391, Kodansha International

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