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«If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.»
Author: Brian Koslow | Keywords: expand, nurture, perspective
«Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.»
Author: Eileen Caddy (Spiritual leader, Writer) | About: Gratitude | Keywords: expand
«Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.»
«Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.»
«Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.»
«If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.»
«I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.»
«However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.»
«For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?»
«Expand yourselves; do not contract into your own tiny individuality.»