Quotes About Threshold

To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of a spiritual life. It can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.

Reading is at the threshold of our inner life; it can lead us into that life but cannot constitute it.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

I called her name into the fold between night and day.

We always tend to keep within ourselves threshold reactions such as a little doubt, or a little impulse not to do something. If the impulses are not very strong we are inclined to put them aside in a one-sided way and by this we have hurt an animal or a spirit within us.

But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

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.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

When one is young and on the threshold of life's long deception, rashness is all. —Françoise Sagan1

Midnight has passed, so it is now officially tomorrow

Cuando los adultos se aplican, superan siemrpe un nuevo umbral de crueldad

Raising it overhead, she stepped over the threshold wearing a smile of total, ecstatic fulfillment. "This is the greatest moment of my life!

Everyone has a limit - a point at which they can't take any more - and, almost out of nowhere, I had reached mine.

Life begins only when we cross the borders and not definitely before!

Aquella noche me visitaron todos los sueños que existen para soñar. Hasta que amaneció permanecí en el umbral de la puerta de mi habitación, con las manos cruzadas sobre la maleta apoyada en mi regazo. En aquella maleta había puesto mi futuro. Doblados y ordenados como si fuesen ropa, aguardaban todos mis devaneos y esperanzas.

He stood at the gateway between two worlds, at the place where imagination passed into creation.

Trump, tenants said, tried to force them out by annoying them. He proposed to move homeless people into at least ten vacant apartments; the city declined the generous offer. Maintenance workers ignored leaky faucets and broken appliances and covered up windows of empty apartments with ratty tinfoil. A tenants' group accused Trump of harassment, but he denied all. "Let me tell you something about the rich," he said. "They have a very low threshold for pain." After

One second, one, is all that separates life from death.

The gate closes behinds us.

while personal income in the U.S. more than doubled between i 96o and the 19gos in constant dollars, the proportion of people saying they are very happy remained a steady 30 percent. One conclusion that the findings seem to justify is that beyond the threshold of poverty, additional resources do not appreciably improve the chances of being happy.

Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile.