Quotes About Expansiveness

It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

It's important for me to not be put into any type of box because that steals the fun of acting. I want to do everything.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings, necessarily blind to particulars and details, magnificently moving in vast masses.

Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

The greatest enemy of liberty is fear. When people feel comfortable and well protected, they are naturally expansive and tolerant of one another's opinions and rights. When they feel threatened, their tolerance shrinks.

The sky didn't wonder where it was.

To be mediocre is not to be small. . . . We are physically small compared to the galaxies, but our minds encompass the universe

The Earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

I dream of being alone on top of a mountain, surveying the land around me, greens and yellows--and the sun directly above, pressing my shadow into a tight ball around my legs. As the sun drops into the afternoon sky, the shadow undrapes itself and stretches out toward the horizon, long and thin, and far behind me...

Perhaps what we need is a radical reconceptualization of time: not as an adversary to be vanquished (a race against time) or a criminal to be tracked down (fugitive time) or an employee to be disciplined (time management) or a commodity to be squandered (wasted time) but as an expansive, fluid entity that will always resist our efforts to contain it. Time can enrich our lives (quality time), transport us to new places and paces (island time), and help us out in moments of need:

The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything is.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Either you choose to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean.

I wanted to house myself in SL's thinking. It was so big and well lit, like a large house sitting solid on the bank of a river.

And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to find parts of yourself in places that you wouldn't even think that you were, you know?

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.