There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children. ] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him. ] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.
None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.
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.
Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.
Love is like water from the ocean. " Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.
There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
Empty vessels make the most sound.
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.
Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.