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• They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Strong, Pain

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• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

  Democritus

  Motivational, Philosophy, Science

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

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• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Meditation, Mind, Ready

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Intuition, Blind

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

  Grace Metalious

  Bottles, Saws, Empty Bottles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

  Nicholas Breton

  Wish, Want, Purses

  'A Farewell to Town' (1577)

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Catholic, Hippo

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4272, Aeterna Press

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• Empty yourself of everything.
  Let the mind become still.
  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
  They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
  Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

  Laozi

  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Timeless, Shock

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

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• Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Empty Vessels, Agitation, Answers

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• A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

  Ovid

  Journey, Safety, Pockets

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• Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Travel, Home

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Pockets

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.68

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• However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

  Saadi

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

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• It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Lonely, Children, Heart

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

  Epicurus

  Suffering, Doe, Philosopher

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• How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lonely, Art, Remember

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• And empty words are evil.

  Homer

  Evil, Empty Words

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.190, Macmillan

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

  Demosthenes

  Speech, Action, Vain

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• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Clothes, Mind

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• Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life, Rooms, Emptiness

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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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