Top 79 Empty Yourself Quotes
#2. Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.
Jennifer Young
#4. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there ... You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.
Annie Dillard
#6. The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#7. What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#8. Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.
Rajneesh
#9. 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.
Kano Jigoro
#10. Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#11. If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned ...
Wayne Dyer
#13. Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
Laozi
#14. When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.
Carol Orsborn
#15. Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
Frederick Lenz
#16. When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Max Lucado
#17. To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.
John Daido Loori
#18. I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
Randy Newman
#19. Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
Dave Matthes
#20. I want to tell her that the only thing you get from walling yourself in is empty.
A.S. King
#21. Silence doesn't mean interesting. It could just mean boring. Sometimes you open the door and find out that it's a big ornate sexy door to an empty closet. Maybe the only thing you're interested in is the mystery, and you'll find yourself bored with what's inside.
Alessandra Torre
#22. There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished. His made-up wife. His invented father. His pretend childhood. He wonders if it is possible to unlie yourself.
Dan Chaon
#23. I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself ... Good evening!
Bill Hicks
#24. If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.
Jake T. Austin
#25. Learn how to be
lonely. Learn what it's like to know
that you are coming home to
yourself night after night-
that empty is just another word
for open.
Kristina Haynes
#26. If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"
Ed Bliss
#27. Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#28. There would be a lot less broken hearts when a relationship fails, if people would understand there's no reason to want someone that doesn't want you. Never allow yourself to feel half empty, when you deserve a relationship that will fill your heart with happiness.
Ron Baratono
#29. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.
Oprah Winfrey
#30. To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'yen A. Gardner
#31. When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form ... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object ... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form ... this is leela.
Eli Jaxon-Bear
#32. To be filled by the Spirit you must be empty of yourself and full of God.
Jackie Kendall
#33. Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
Gautama Buddha
#34. Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.
Merle Shain
#36. You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.
Elena Tonra
#37. Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.
Henry Miller
#38. Look to yourself; you've got a gold mine in you that must be exploited. Don't exchange yourself for fear to trade on silver platter. You brought a load of gifts to the world; use them and die empty!
Israelmore Ayivor
#39. You cannot pour from an empty bottle so take care of yourself first.
Keysha Jade
#40. Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged.
Gretchen Rubin
#41. How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
Janny Wurts
#42. Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare ... a big, thick book with an elegant cover ... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.
Carter Ratcliff
#43. Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.
Vironika Tugaleva
#44. Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba
#45. Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
Dan Millman
#46. Expressing an opinion with an empty soul can complicate your duty of respecting the opinions of others.
Vasilios Karpos
#47. Sometimes the fridge is empty. Sometimes you run out of booze. Sometimes a guy hits you for no reason. Sometimes life doesn't seem worth living. Sometimes you hate yourself. But there's never a time when you don't enjoy a smoke.
Chloe Thurlow
#48. Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.
Alastair Humphreys
#49. Don't be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
Kahlil Gibran
#51. If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
John Green
#53. Don't kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. 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
#55. Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. There is a time when you must take a picture of yourself. Hunger is always the same as the first hunger. The need renews itself empty and entire.
Clarice Lispector
#56. When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
Laozi
#57. God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
Rajneesh
#58. There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
Sarah Dessen
#59. If you are not requiring yourself to get your deepest sense of well-being vertically, you will shop for it horizontally, and you will always come up empty.
Paul David Tripp
#60. I was young, still so young, that I thought my lack of wholeness was somehow my fault. I had no idea everyone feels this way - that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#61. He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.
Michael Connelly
#62. senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.
Wes Burgess
#63. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
Mother Teresa
#64. You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.
Tito Colliander
#65. I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#66. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
Laozi
#67. If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces
Oprah Winfrey
#68. What is there about you to adore? Who in this world do you care about, besides yourself? You're a pretty face, but you're empty inside. You don't even know what you want. You're just waiting for someone to give it to you.
Sarah Cross
#69. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.
Jon Blais
#70. I used to think that if she were gone, you would come back to me."
"If she were gone, I would be nothing," Marco says. "You should think better of yourself than to settle for that."
They stand in silence on the empty street, the chill of the night air falling between them.
Erin Morgenstern
#71. Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?
Dan Groat
#72. Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.
E'yen A. Gardner
#73. I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.
Amos Oz
#74. Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
Ajahn Chah
#75. Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
Mitch Albom
#76. If you can't save yourself from attack by being powerful - and I, palpably, have no power. My hands are empty - then perhaps you can save yourself from attack by being ruined, instead. Blow yourself up before the enemy gets to you.
Caitlin Moran
#77. Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.
Chuck Palahniuk
#78. You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.
Guillaume Canet
#79. When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.
Jan Hellriegel
