Quotes About Infinite

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world's darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density.

Hell has no true bottom.

C'est ce que fait Dieu, chaque nuit. That's what God has to do every night on an infinite scale. He invented the whole universe, and now he has to pay attention to it. Otherwise all the stars will go out one by one. We complain that he sometimes doesn't get around to the things we want him to, but look up at the sky! Always more spectacular, the people say. Always more spectacular... Les gens en veulent toujours plus.

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

The mind is as big as the universe.

Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

poem by Nyoshul Khenpo: Rest in natural great peace This exhausted mind Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsara.

they always ask how we're supposed to love someone when we can't even love ourselves, well the answer is, the person we love shows us how, we learn, we grow and become one, that's when our love becomes infinite.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. India saw from the beginning -- and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight -- that life cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

A single God ñ touch From Godís Compassion ñ Height Can transform manís unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into Godís own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power.

The infinite substance is within it. Within it, the great merchant is said to dwell. Who is the trader who deals there?

She is the most beautiful among women; upon her forehead she wears the Jewel of the Lord's Love. Her glory and her wisdom are magnificent; her love for the Infinite Lord is True. Other than her Beloved Lord, she knows no man. She enshrines love for the True Guru.

Forgetfulness of the infinite is misery. Forgetfulness of the trivial is ecstasy.

And I knew not God to be a Spirit, not one who hath parts extended in length and breadth, or whose being was bulk; for every bulk is less in a part than in the whole: and if it be infinite, it must be less in such part as is defined by a certain space, than in its infinitude; and so is not wholly every where, as Spirit, as God. And what that should be in us, by which we were like to God, and might be rightly said to be after the image of God, I was altogether ignorant.

The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world

Plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

there must be a perpetual state of tension between torment and ecstasy if man is to be projected into the infinite.

Einzig das Unmeßbare, das Unfaßbare erschreckt uns, alles Begrenzte dagegen, alles Bestimmte fordert zur Probe heraus und wird zum Maß unserer Kraft.