Nothingness Quotes

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

Related topics: Wisdom Spiritual Zen

Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats

The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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