Expansive Quotes

“Mary sat on a bench in the park. It was the middle of the night and she was alone and she felt at peace. She leaned back and looked upward. The sky was endless and expansive and the stars stretched on forever. It made her feel very small but it also made her feel very important. Of all of the things that might have ever had the chance to exist in the history of the universe, she had the privilege of being one of them. A living, thinking, feeling being, with the ability to control her own destiny. As wondrous and expansive as stars and the entire universe were, none of them had this power. None of them had any control. And yet she felt humbled to be a part of it at all. It felt like a trade-off. In this life you could only be one or the other: wondrous and expansive or small and in control.”

“An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.”

“Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.”

“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”

“At all times we are either in fear or we are in love. We are either open or we are closed. Expansive or contracted.”

“Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.”

“We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.”

“Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.”

“Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.”