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Quotes About Enlargement

Another aspect of that legacy was the buoyant optimism in the schools. All the masters shared the view that man, even in his fallen state, was 'capable of the fullest intellectual and spiritual enlargement', that the universe was ordered and therefore accessible to rational inquiry, and that man's mastery of his environment through his intellect, cumulative knowledge and experience was possible.22 Outside
~ Peter Watson
I knew their numbers increased;
~ Jonathan Swift
La casa no es tan grande, pensó. La agrandan la penumbra, la simetría, los espejos, los muchos años, mi desconocimiento, la soledad.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.
~ R.L. Stine
You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
~ Rand Paul
I took a very small image and blew it up to enormous scale. What happens when you do that is that the information in the image starts to become indistinct. The image darkens.
~ Glenn Ligon
Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.
~ Wallace Stegner
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
~ Blaise Pascal
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
~ Charles Lamb
It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.
~ Isabel Paterson
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.
~ Elizabeth of the Trinity
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
~ John Piper
Good leaders hold positive, views of the future. We believe God fulfills our dreams, and our dreams are enlarged. Our desires exceed what we currently have and where we currently are.
~ Phil Pringle
Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
God's goal is to multiply His people
~ Sunday Adelaja
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
~ David McCullough
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
~ Tony Hsieh
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
~ James Hollis
What you plan is too small for you to live.
~ David Whyte
The expansion is inevitable.
~ Esther Hicks
O God, enlarge love in me, so I may learn to taste with my whole heart how sweet it is to love, to be dissolved, and to swim in love.
~ James Watkins