Quotes for All
Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It … Read more
Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. Edna St. Vincent Millay
On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that’s me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive’s they’ll never know got a mind full of … Read more
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
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
People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy. Bo Burnham
Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. … Read more
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Alexander MacLaren