“I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled… and I just wanted to keep being filled.”

“Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

“I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer

“I am The Mahdi (the guided one), I am the Imam of the time, and I am the one who fills it (the Earth) with justice just as it was filled with injustice and tyranny.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–941) 12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

“Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.”

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872) austrian dramatic and writer

“I am just an ordinary bloke, I draw lines around things and fill them in.”

Rigby Graham (1931–2015) British author and illustrator

“I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.”

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980) American writer and prominent socialite