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Quotes About Expansion

In the words of Shakespeare: "Now (our) my soul hath elbow room.
~ Unknown
This is in direct relationship to nature's pendulum. We also resolve overwhelm through the natural cycles of expansion and contraction. This tells us that no matter how badly we are feeling right now, this contraction will be followed by an expansion toward freedom.
~ Peter A. Levine
We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities.
~ Unknown
We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities. What we do shapes who we become and what we're capable of doing. The more we do, the more we can do.
~ Unknown
Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.
~ Unknown
The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.
~ Unknown
Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?
~ Peter F. Hamilton
There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn't hard to think they found one star that's safe from the enemy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
We should take our time and reach the Dyson Pair as we expand naturally, not pull off this crazy Apollo stunt.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.
~ Unknown
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly.
~ Peter Heller
This was our ritual while we waited for our lives to truly begin and I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly. That's the way it seems now looking back.
~ Peter Heller
La mente, una vez expandida, nunca puede volver a sus dimensiones originales».
~ Peter James
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
~ Genesis 9:7
May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
~ Genesis 9:27
From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
~ Genesis 10:11
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
~ Genesis 13:14
For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
~ Exodus 34:24
Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
~ Deuteronomy 11:24
Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
~ Joshua 1:4
Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
~ Joshua 17:15
From there it crossed eastward to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon and curved around toward Neah.
~ Joshua 19:13
After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
~ 2 Samuel 5:13