Quotes About Threshold

Everyone has a limit as to how much information or stimulation can be taken in before getting overloaded, overstimulated, overaroused, overwhelmed, and just over! We simply reach that point sooner than others. Fortunately, as soon as we get some downtime we recover nicely.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

What lies on the edge of perception, from where anything might come moving in?

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Life, like love, cannot thrive inside its own threshold but is renewed as it offers itself. Life grows as it is spent.

Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into about 10 cups of coffee a day.

A door sprang open as if it knew Spanish

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar...

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

The threshold of a new house is a lonely place.

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar-- I say, you say, he and she, it, on the other hand, does not say --paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on.

But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

The edge of sleep can be such a precious time.