A Quote by Laozi

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. — © Laozi
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.

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Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
I believe that 'passion' is another word for energy. That's it. What energizes you? And that - we naturally have a tremendous amount of body wisdom about that, and that every one of us has a internal fuel tank that is either empty or full. And if you're empty, you feel depleted. If you're full, you feel energized.
Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.
Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.
You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.
You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.
Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.
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