Quotes About Expansion

Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.

Just on the inside, though," Seth said. "Like in my chest. Like I breathe air into my chest, and there's more space in my lungs than before. But not my lungs really. I just feel like there's more room inside me than there used to be.

But if I were to simply remain within my comfort zone, clinging to the way I want to feel—unchallenged—my comfort zone would just keep getting smaller.

I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.

A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.

Does he smoke marijuana?" I asked, aware that marijuana's mind expansion properties are the motive behind the government's adamant opposition to the herb. Since it can render mind control uncontrollable by penetrating memory compartmentalization, marijuana use is strictly forbidden in the military, special forces, among spies, etc.

The construction of space colonies will follow a similar pattern, so that by the year 2010 or thereabouts there will be many space colonies in existence and many new ones being constructed each year.

But in a world of fixed size, with no way to get more territory without taking it from a neighbor, there was always a war going on, and usually several.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

La pluralità dei dettagli dell'esistenza diventa un mistero nel momento in cui la curiosità ne allarga i confini naturali.

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others And penetrate ever further through the eternal field, That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.

Filters let in a cup of water," he says, "but keep out the ocean.

Ich mögte beten wie Moses im Koran: Herr mache mir Raum in meiner engen Brust.

Abro espacios a millones de hombres, espacios en los que tal vez no estén seguros, pero sí podrán estar activos y libres.

Quiero disfrutar dentro de mí lo que ha disfrutado el conjunto de la humanidad. Quiero apresar con mi espíritu lo más elevado y lo más sumido en la profundidad, amontonar su ventura y su dolor en mi pecho y, de esta manera, ampliar mi yo y convertirlo en el suyo, y, al final, sucumbir como ella misma.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

As Oliver Ellsworth, the third chief justice of the United States, declared, "As population increases, poor labourers will be so plenty as to render slaves useless. Slavery in time will not be a speck in our country."42 The leaders simply did not count on the remarkable demographic capacity of the slave states themselves, especially Virginia, to produce slaves for the expanding areas of the Deep South and the Southwest.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a love-breath that takes you all the way to infinity.

We are living in an age of "Mergers" and "Combines." When your business is not doing good you combine with something and sell more stock.

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.