Emily Dickinson Quotes

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Life itself is exponential.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

The expansion is inevitable.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.

Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

Spread your wings and let me come inside.

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.