#empty

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#empty #every #exercise #exercised #forget

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#bad #bad one #contained #distinguish #education

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble. ↗

— James Grainger

#empty #fame #gold #shining #transient

If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#cracked-up-to-be #empty-soul #mind #beauty

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#capability #check #depressed #design #empty

I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever. ↗

— H.C. Paye

#broken-heart #empty #love #million #not

I guess love is not the priority; you wouldn’t fall in love with an empty stomach. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #priority #love

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#empty #here #out #out here #regulations

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? ↗

— Lukas Foss

#empty #happen #how #i #i do