#empty

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#empty #into #life #make #out

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#bright #empty #fill #hole #interesting

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#artists #center #empty #end #god

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. ↗

— James Payn

#allowances #am #apt #aware #certain

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#back #empty #heads #hearts #held

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#cannot #emptiness #empty #hear #hearts

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#empty #forward #glass #half #i

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#had #hands #i #keep #sake

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#empty #everything #filled #itself #knowing

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