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Quotes About Expansiveness

The idea of a woman mailing a postcard as part of a promise to two children far away indicated an expansiveness as well as aloneness, a hidden need in her. It signalled two very different states.
~ Michael Ondaatje
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
~ Malcolm McDowell
Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam.
~ Boris Pasternak
el terreno de lo posible es muy amplio cuando no hay temor a que la luz se encienda.
~ Boris Vian
I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all directions...
~ Julio Cortazar
Küçücük bir dünyada büyük insanlar olarak kalmak m? istiyoruz, yoksa uçsuz bucaks?z bir dünyada küçük insanlar olmak m??
~ Fred Hoyle
you look out at the clear blue sky and for an instant you see that you are everything. You want to say something, but none of the words you have will stick at all; nothing will come except for a wide, wide smile that crosses all of space at time---and the moment is utterly forgotten
~ Brad Warner
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon—said Damodara
~ Henry David Thoreau
did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Os únicos seres felizes no mundo são os que gozam livremente de um vasto horizonte
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon
~ Henry David Thoreau
see yourself as the smallest of the small. Then you can make room for the whole world.
~ Stephen Cope
I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.
~ Anthony Hopkins
When one of us says, "Look, there's nothing out there," what we are really saying is, "I cannot see.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one's heart.
~ Gary Snyder
I have two rooms and a huge balcony, and so many mountains that I haven't even begun to climb them yet.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I feel it, that expansiveness specific to childhood, the breath filling you all the way up to the puff of your cheeks, the feeling that each breath is good.
~ Katie Williams
Everyone was connected — I saw it, felt the expansiveness of it, but also understood that such knowledge needed to be parsed into a necessary blindness: to comprehend the magnitude of it would be too much. As much as I had lived, in all my years, I had seen but a corner of the tapestry. A thread .
~ Keith Rosson
Even the wide sea and the open sky can be claustrophobic if you never get away from them.
~ C.A. Fletcher
The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.
~ C.W. Gortner
I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.
~ Sue Hubbell
Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.
~ Swami Chetanananda
Simply, do not be narrow-minded.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb