Quotes About Expansion

The sun never sets on my gallery.

We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

it is obvious that most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth— it's she who drives the loudmouths from the hall and clears it for a different celebration   where the one guest is you. In the softness of evening it's you she receives.   You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches beyond what limits her, to hold you.

Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything;

The future stands firm... but we move in infinite space.

Stiller Freund der vielen Fernen, fühle, wie dein Atem noch den Raum vermehrt.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.

One ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one's life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.

If we imagine our being as a room of any size, it seems that most of us know only a single corner of that room, a spot by the window, a narrow strip on which we keep walking back and forth. That gives a kind of security. But isn't insecurity with all its dangers so much more human? We are not prisoners of that room.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.

See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Douglas opened one eye. And everything, absolutely everything, was there. The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.