Emptiness Quotes - Page 10

• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

  Seneca the Elder

  Kings, People, Politics

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

  Longchenpa

  Rest In Peace, Buddhist, Laughter

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• Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Heart, Echoes, Hollowness

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

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• We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

  Jennifer James

  Confused, Selfish, Love You

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Pain, Past

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• There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Smell, Space, Identity

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• If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Block, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.421, Parallax Press

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• Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Men, Bags

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.11

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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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• Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
  They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
  Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
  Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

  Karl Kraus

  Empty, Deals, Empty Heads

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• Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Men, Roots

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• God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheism, World, Dignity

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.183, Vintage

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• Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

  Kristen Stewart

  Silly, Vanity, Sound

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• With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

  Peter Gabriel

  Darkness, Low Self Esteem, Want

  Song: Love To Be Loved, Album: Us, 1992

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• Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Trying

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• The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

  Charlie W Shedd

  People, Church, Problem

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• I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were times when both pictures disappear and other times when they were both manifest. That vibration is basically what the work was about for me - that space in the middle where there is no picture, rather an emptiness, an oblivion.

  Sherrie Levine

  Space, Vibrations, Oblivion

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• Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

  Jack Kornfield

  Rain, Teaching, Cutting

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• The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

  Christina Aguilera

  Real, Heart, Love Life

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• Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

  Jacques Maritain

  Needs, Faster, Thirst

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• How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Feelings, Sorrow, Finals

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