Quotes About Expansion

One of the best presents anyone can give you is the name of a writer whose books they believe will be 'you' – and they are. Someone you would almost certainly never have found for yourself. They expand your horizons, they enrich you, they lead you forward, they chime with truths you already know and confirm them, they share new truths of their own with you.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

Whatever goal is set for art eventually proves restrictive, matched against the widest goals of consciousness.

Was it wrong for me to want more than constrained existence? Wrong to hunger for change, new faces, a full life? Surprises to please my eyes and ears?

A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. —Madeleine L'Engle

Being a mother had taught her so much in such a short time. She'd never known all the colors and shapes that love could take, had never known her heart could be so full yet still have the capacity to expand.

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading.... From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable. Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved?

A group of ten that doubles every eighteen months can reach a thousand people for God in ten years.

there is a lot more where that came from, thats just the tip of the iceberg"

Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.

The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone. Embrace change and welcome new experiences.

Bunch a buildings that outgrowed the sky.

Creo que la lectura y la escritura nos permiten ensanchar la vida, ya que alargarla no podemos

Que los limites de tu lenguaje son los lìmites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanàtico de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Literature makes us better thinkers. It moves us to see the multi-sidedness of situations and therefore expands the breadth of our visions, moving us towards dreams and solutions we might otherwise have imagined.

When faced with the illogical, one must expand the sphere of logic to include rules of logic for that which is not logic. This is the only possibility in a world that works according to the rules of rationality.

The world is full of places I haven't been.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

My goal, one-hundred percent, is to get individuals and companies to move to Florida.

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.