Empty Quotes

An empty canvas is full.

As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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

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

We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

All that glitters is not gold.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.