Expansiveness Quotes

“Throughout that year I read one book a day including Sundays. I could obtain all the books I wanted from Eileen Odell. I discovered a world of music, of light and immortal things. I trembled with delight when I came upon a brilliant phrase or a novel idea. While the other patients were worrying and complaining, I explored the worlds of great men's living minds.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“So from day to day I read, and reading widened my mental horizon, creating a spiritual kinship with other men who had pondered over the miseries of their countries. Then it came to me that the place did not matter: these sensitive writers reacted to the social dynamics of their time. I, too, reacted to my time. I promised myself that I would read ten thousand books when I got well. I plunged into books, boring through the earth's core, leveling all seas and oceans, swimming in the constellations.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“Currents of air and sea are vulnerable to my breathing. Metaphors of mountain ranges seem tiny compared to all I contain.”
― Laurie Perez, The Power of Amie Martine

“Open to receive. Dance with the fading grasses. Nourish your Soul, as the leaves surrender to all the beauty of the fall. Nature accepts and loves us, just as we are, in each passing moment of this breath. Open your heart, fall into her loving embrace. Walk through the passageway of your increasingly expansive heart.”
― Ulonda Faye, Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul

“I had never been alone in a room with Mr. Pinkton before, and when he entered, my only thought was that for such a slim man, he took up a surprising amount of space. Was it surprising, though? Power is expansive.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

“How'd everything get small?"

"What do you mean?" If Desiree was annoyed by her, her voice didn't betray it.

"I wanted to be a bigger person than I am, you know? Like a better person, more part of the world, but somehow I ended up with this small suburban life.”
― Angela Flournoy