Filling My Life Quotes

#1. I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Ed Harris

#2. I am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.

Debasish Mridha

#3. The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

Laura Kasischke

#4. All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.

Nikola Tesla

#5. How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Nickolas Ashford

#7. This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

John Burnside

#8. You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Lauren Bacall

#9. If you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires.

Seneca.

#10. That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The
details didn't matter.

Meg Rosoff

#11. My life was too much miserable that I never felt to think beyond filling my empty stomach.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

Twyla Tharp

#13. Peter and others who experienced the special filling on Pentecost Day (2:4) were filled with the Spirit again and again (4:8, 31; 6:5; 7:55) and so boldly spoke the word of God. That was just the beginning. The fullness of the Spirit affects all areas of life, not just speaking boldly (

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#14. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#15. Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

Carol Gilligan

#16. The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

Robert Collier

#17. I've learned that life isn't about the end, but about the chapters in between. The filling in that we do to get our stories told and how people react to it is what keeps us going.

Claire Contreras

#18. I pat my mule's neck and find comfort in the silky tufts of her mane. Father told me not to brood when people judged me for my wrapper, not my filling, or I would spend my whole life in the steamer.

Stacey Lee

#19. I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.

C.S. Lewis

#20. All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness ... I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.

Blake Charlton

#21. The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether - very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people's principal method for filling idle time.

Bill Bryson

#22. My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

Vincent Gallo

#23. I've seen him before you know. In real life." "What? When?" I catch a twinge of hurt in her voice for not filling her in on it earlier. "When I was at Sephora," I tell her. "So he's a metrosexual ghost as well?" Dex asks.

Karina Halle

#24. Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

Jill Telford

#25. I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

Rachel Platten

#26. The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.

S.R. Crawford

#27. I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

Banana Yoshimoto

#28. If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

James Taylor

#29. Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to stop as long as she kept the good times going.

Libba Bray

#30. He'd built his life on wanting the impossible - true power, recognition, a future - and now magic had found him the moment he stopped looking. It breathed life into all those old dreams, filling him with that most terrible of questions:
What if . . .

Roshani Chokshi

#31. I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it ... But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

Bart D. Ehrman

#32. If love were human I would've set them on fire by now - a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I'd breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love's destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart.

Piper Payne

#33. If you do your best, stay in the game, learn along the way, and adapt as best you can, life has an incredible way of filling in the details for you.

Josh Hinds

#34. Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by."
Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't."
"It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train.

Shelly Laurenston

#35. We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.

Lisa Hammond

#36. She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.

Veronica Rossi

#37. They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.

Gillian Flynn

#38. By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Florence Nightingale

#39. Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Eric Berne

#40. The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.

Thomas Aquinas

#41. I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

Lucinda Riley

#42. As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#43. Dad and Gram didn't take a single day on the ranch for granted. Regardless of the weather, the greeted each morning as if they'd embrace it, filling their eyes with a vaulting sky and sagebrush-coverd ridges. Then they gave silent prayer of thanks for living the life they loved.

Terri Farley

#44. Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#45. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.

Keary Taylor

#46. We are energetic beings, all we do is filling voids.

Stefan Emunds

#47. Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.

Sanober Khan

#48. Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Danielle Steel

#49. Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Chris Fabry

#50. Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

Stephen Fry

#51. I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.

Stella Young

#52. To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is
not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Joseph Campbell

#53. We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

Laura E. Richards

#54. My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

Flea

#55. There are five forms of wealth: economic wealth, relationship wealth, physical wealth, adventure wealth and what I call psychic wealth (which is all about filling your life with meaning).

Robin S. Sharma

#56. Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim

#57. It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death's already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It

Gregory David Roberts

#58. Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

Jennifer Worth

#59. A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Jodi Picoult

#60. Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.' he sighed 'with a very thin bread and lots of filling.

Mark Haddon

#61. Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

Laozi

#62. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.

Suzanne Selfors

#63. The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny stars. There seemed all the more of them, for as well as filling the sky, they shimmered in an elegant ballet on the waves, the sea itself giving them life.

Mary-Jean Harris

#64. Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water.

Colleen Houck