Quotes About Expansiveness

The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!

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.

Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes...

grass-filled flight

I was big, Paul D, and deep and wide and when I stretched out my arms all my children could get in between

Sometimes, lying out on Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt's back lawn, it'd felt as if I could stretch out my arms and my fingertips and rake them across the underside of the heavens and end up with a fistful of stars.

Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

I've never been the type of person to put myself in a box.

Sophie; there was space

Ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od neba, to je unutrašnjost duše.

Is it really a cage if it's the size of the world?" "Yes," said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

éramos acolhidos em toda a parte com aquela expansiva cordialidade americana sob a qual se percebe, quase sempre, um veio de condescendência.

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

At all times we are either in fear or we are in love. We are either open or we are closed. Expansive or contracted.

True spirituality breaks down the walls of our souls and lets in not just heaven, but the whole world.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

ÇocukluÄŸumda büyük at?l?mlar?m, insanüstü heyecanlar?m olmuÅŸtu; yaln?z ba??ma oturup içimi çekerdim, çünkü dünyaya s??m?yordum.

All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

Le smile of a child expands the universe. (D'un enfant le sourire agrandit l'univers)

The Smile of a Child makes the Universe larger. (Le sourire d'un enfant agrandit l'univers)

In fact, I think it would be preferable if we split up. We can watch a wider expanse that way.