Best Empty Quotes

An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Riches I need not, nor man’s empty praise.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

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

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.

I salute my desires with a bow.were it not for them to come and playmind would be empty just like me.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

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

He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release – the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

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

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head – and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It’s an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that’s not the most important thing. It’s the work itself.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask What’s in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty–to the poor and humble.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I’d like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories – though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can’t really function well if all you’re eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.

You always have a choice. Don’t ever imagine you don’t. Whatever you do, it’s a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That’s when honor becomes more than empty words.

There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

It is good for God’s people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be empty enough and open enough to discover the holiness we were made for. When we are stuffed full of other things and never allow ourselves to be in a place of longing, we don’t recognize the deeper spiritual battle going on.