I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
In this quote, Laura Hillenbrand reflects on a transformative experience where she once felt empty but has now found fulfillment. The sentiment conveys a deep desire to continue this process of being filled, indicating a pursuit of knowledge, experiences, and emotional enrichment that adds meaning to life.
In practice
In a motivational speech discussing the importance of personal growth.
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
Without dignity, identity is erased.
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.
Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.
We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.
When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do.
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