Browsing Topic 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.

Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.

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

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift – the gift of life – and it’s amazing that I live each day.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God’s love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

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?

The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.

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.

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.

The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

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

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

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