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Quotes About Expansiveness

Nada es pequeño para las grandes mentes
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.
~ Arundhati Roy
This is what I'm saying; you hate your life. But you don't know what life is. Life is too huge for you to possibly hate. If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you. However big you think your life is, it's nothing compared to what's out there.
~ Augusten Burroughs
This is what I'm saying: you hate your life. But you don't know what life is. Life is too huge for you to possibly hate. If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you. However big you think your life is, it's nothing compared to what's out there.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Life is as large as you explore it.
~ Andrija Joni?, Refren
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
~ Corita Kent
Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence
~ Humberto Maturana
And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
~ Jojo Moyes
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
~ Mary Roach
knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
~ Sean Patrick
With the loss of self-consciousness, the landscape opens.
~ Barry Lopez
They began swinging high and higher as the sky opened its arms wide.
~ Beverly Lewis
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
~ Anne McCaffrey
You can't criticize the size of a world.
~ Gregory Maguire
Jer sam smatrao da me moja samo?a ?ini lijepim, i da je moje srce utoliko šire ukoliko ga držim daleko od svega što zna?i ljudsku radost.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The world is my lobster.
~ Keith O'Neill
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.
~ Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
~ Walt Whitman
Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.
~ William P. Young
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends.
~ Rumi
Mucha gente tiene pensamientos limitados sobre Dios. En un esfuerzo por verlo como nuestro amigo, hemos perdido de vista su inmensidad. En nuestro deseo de entenderlo, hemos intentado contenerlo.
~ Max Lucado
Stink woke up the next morning, his bed felt as big as a country. The ceiling was up
~ Megan McDonald
Anything, seen without prejudice, is enormous.
~ Mervyn Peake
Whoever you are, some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.
~ Michael Crichton