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It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir. -- Charles Comiskey
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. -- Meister Eckhart
When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there. -- James Dashner
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. -- Alan Guth
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together. -- Bill Viola
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? -- Richard Brautigan
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are. -- John Irving
Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out. -- Morgan Wootten
Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. -- James Salter
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. -- Janeane Garofalo
The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled. -- Dennis Bergkamp
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. -- Thomas Traherne
I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things. -- Reggie Watts
I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence. -- Marilynne Robinson
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. -- David Rockefeller
There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards. -- Scott Stossel
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. -- David Brainerd
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. -- Richard Dawkins
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing. -- Alicia Keys
Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty. -- Maira Kalman
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes. -- Ragnar TÃ¸rnquist
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life." -- Henry Beston
The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. -- Leo Buscaglia
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things. -- Zhuangzi
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. -- Charlotte Bronte
In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! -- Cornelia Funke
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. -- Rajneesh
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. -- Henry Beston
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out. -- Buddy Wakefield
Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light. -- Jeanette Winterson
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