Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never…

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive…

— Elizabeth of the Trinity

Who am I?” he whispered. “For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to…

— Cassandra Clare

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

— Stephen Lang

“But if this desire that a woman should appear added for me something more exalting than the charms of nature, they in their turn…

— Marcel Proust

“The soul does not grow by chance; it is enlarged by love.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged.”

— Shirley Hazzard

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander…

— Henry David Thoreau

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

— Anna Quindlen

“Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

— Charles de Lint

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

— Francis Bacon

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

— Blaise Pascal

I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having…

— Marianne Williamson

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

— Rosie O'Donnell

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your…

— Conor Oberst