The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. — John Lyly
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. — Lao Tzu
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel. — Max Lucado
Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise — Greek Proverbs
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness. — Bruce Lee
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them. — C. S. Lewis
We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have. — Vincent de Paul
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. — Diane Black
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. — Diana Black
If a bamboo tube makes a loud sound, it is empty. — Filipino Proverbs
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels — Kathryn Kuhlman
The noisiest drum has nothing but air inside. — Filipino Proverbs
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. — Charles Simic
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. — William Butler Yeats
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. — Norman Vincent Peale
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. — Victor Hugo
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. — Robert H. Shaffer
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. — Socrates
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. — Lao Tzu
Empty Vessels Image Quotes
Empty Minds Make The Most Noise!
Empty Cup Quotes
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. — Bruce Lee
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall. — Annie Dillard
Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty. — Bruce Lee
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup? — Nyogen Senzaki
No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill. — Lysa TerKeurst
Have an open mind! Have an empty cup! — Tae Yun Kim
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large. — George Carlin
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains. — Frances Moore Lappé
There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup. — Ted Kooser
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality. — Bruce Lee
Empty Shell Quotes
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. — J. K. Rowling
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit. — Hildegard of Bingen
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell. — Jennifer Niven
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. — Sam Vaknin
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
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
Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ. — Leeteuk
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth? — Lillian B. Rubin
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego. — Frederick Lenz
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. — Eleanor Brown
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Plato
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies. — Johannes Kepler
All that glitters is not gold. — William Shakespeare
Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar. — Eileen Caddy
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light. — Rumi
Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel. — Eleanor Brown
Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace. — Dwight L. Moody
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us. — Learned Hand
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Strike while the iron is hot. — Geoffrey Chaucer
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers — William Baldwin
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. — Jerry Springer
Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Empty vessels make the most sound. — John Lydgate
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
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. — William Shakespeare
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. — Lao Tzu
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over. — Paul J. Meyer
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden
Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power. — Chris Matthews
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy. — Anatol Rapoport
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. — Anne Lamott
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in. — Anthony Kiedis
Dear Friend,Please be patient with me; I need to grieve in my own way and in my own time.Please don't take away my grief or try to fix my pain. The best thing you can do is listen to me and let me cry on your shoulder. Don't be afraid to cry with me. Your tears will tell me how much you care.Please forgive me if I seem insensitive to your problems. I feel depleted and drained, like an empty vessel, with nothing left to give.Please let me express my feelings and talk about my memories. Feel free to share your own stories of my loved one with me. I need to hear them.Please understand why I must turn a deaf ear to criticism or tired clich — Margaret Brownley
I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump. — John Dean
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. — John Lydon
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing. — Hannah More
Emptie vessels sound most. — George Herbert
The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men. — Ray Stedman
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew? — Anne Lamott
Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable. — Lao Tzu
We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful. — Lao Tzu
Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air. He lived, though was not truly alive — J.R. Ward
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