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Once I knew only darkness and stillness ...
my life was without past or future ...
but a little word from the fingers of another
fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness,
and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
- Helen Keller
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Life is empty and meaningless
because life is empty and meaningless.
- Werner Erhard
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
- Albert Einstein
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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