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“Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.”

Men Mean Jobs Hours Empty Retirement Presidency Filling Part Time Filling Up Part Time Jobs

Author:Simon Hoggart

“The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.”

Self Death Water Freedom Cutting Enlightenment Empty Universal Deeds Significance Sole Filling Swallowing Cabbage Cutting Off

Book:Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“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.”

Whole Jobs Lines Space Identity Calling Empty Bottom Blank Filling Bottom Line Humbling Empty Space Professional Life Blank Space

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.”

Inspirational Fun Music Rocks Empty Chests Filling Elbows Filling Up

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.”

Mind Book Today Process Empty Educational Halls Filling Examination Education Today

Author:Sai Baba

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”

Soul Might Law Imagination Natural Space Grace Movement Empty Exception Controlled Void Gravity Filling Empty Space Filling Up

Author:Simone Weil

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

Left Space Behinds Empty Filling Left Behind Folds Empty Space Wildness Second Place Filling Up

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.”

Needs Feels Trying Form Space Answers Air Missing Mouths Empty Tongue Gaps Sensations Filling

Book:The Last Time I Saw Mother

Source: The Last Time I Saw Mother

“As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.”

Responsibility Leader Empty Responsible Cups Filling

Book:Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

Source: Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

“You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.”

People Want Writing Ideas Running Water Empty Breaths Smell Emptiness Filling Filling Up

Author:Anne Lamott

“You are so addicted and you have become so habituated that you cannot allow the cup to be empty even for a single moment. The moment you see emptiness anywhere you start filling it. You are so scared of emptiness, you are so afraid.: emptiness appears like death. You will fill it with anything, but you will fill it.”

Moments Empty Scared Cups Emptiness Filling Single Mom

Author:Rajneesh

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.”

Writing Firsts Mean Made Book Hard Stories Light Happens Next Waiting Hurt Morning Cold Empty Warm Every Morning Next Day Filling One You Love Someone You Love

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.”

Source: Strengthen My Spirit