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• It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Future, Heaven, Might

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Sleep, House

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Imagination, Solitude, Doubt

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• And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Fate, Winning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

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• The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

  Joseph Addison

  Memories, Animal, May

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.563

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• The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thinking, Age, Spirit

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• The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• All places are filled with fools.
  [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fool, Folly

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• To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teenager, Land, Confusion

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.99, Random House

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• There are dreams of love, life, and adventure in all of us. But we are also sadly filled with reasons why we shouldn't try. These reasons seem to protect us, but in truth they imprison us. They hold life at a distance. Life will be over sooner than we think. If we have bikes to ride and people to love, now is the time.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Dream, Distance, Love Life

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

  William Cowper

  Sick, Soul, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “Thoughts on War and Warriors; extracted from the poetical writings of William Cowper”, p.15

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• We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

  Mother Teresa

  God

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• from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Past, Alcohol, United States

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• I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dark, Mind, Would Be

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• In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

  John Selden

  Fall, Cutting, Thinking

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• My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

  Luca Parmitano

  Beautiful, Beach, Memories

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• How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

  Luanne Rice

  Wise, Dream, Character

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• Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Intellectual, Principles

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Lap, Looks

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

  Liv Ullmann

  Acting, Actors, Evening

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• Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

  Freya Stark

  Space, Silence, Style

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.50, I.B.Tauris

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• before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.

  Bette Midler

  Country, Travel, Thinking

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Men, Blood

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.151

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