Expansion Quotes

332 Expansion quotes by 284 unique authors

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is… — Swami Vivekananda
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an… — Edith Wharton
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. — Swami Vivekananda
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen… — James Frey
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have… — Rajneesh
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God — Honore de Balzac
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin
If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either… — Jonah Goldberg
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. — Anais Nin
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I… — Koren Zailckas
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion. — Daniel Quinn
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the… — Tim Wise
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. — Simone de Beauvoir
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. — Deepak Chopra
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? — Khalil Gibran
We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of… — Nicholas G. Carr
To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is… — Terry Goodkind
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed,… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion… — Jeanette Winterson
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The… — Sri Chinmoy

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