Whole world Quote by Celia Thaxter

“There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.”

— Kathryn Worth

“As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and…

— Anonymous

“The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals on our…

— Gregory Boyle

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand”

— William Blake

“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive…

— Herman Melville

“We don't have to circle the world in order to find beauty and fulfilment. After all, most of living has to happen in the…

— Ruskin Bond

“Human reasoning does not compass everything in all respects, just as vision does not reveal all things to sight.”

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

“Perhaps I will paint this town—from a distance, as if it is on a far hill—and in the foreground, an enclosure of gold, a…

— M.T. Anderson

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to…

— Ann Patchett

“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a snow storm,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are…

— Psalms 139

“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.”

— Alan Bradley