In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Quote by Antonio Porchia

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If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled...

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled...

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are...

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are...

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your...

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your...