Eleanor Brown
Author
"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."
Empty Vessels quotes
Empty Vessels
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"All that glitters is not gold."
Eleanor Brown
Author
"Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"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."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Philosopher, Educator
"Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only."
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"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers"
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"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'."
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"The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values."
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