Quotes About Threshold

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

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 the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. Even the finest books deserve to be thrown aside.

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 the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

it's not a gut instinct per se—it's a neurological response triggered by one or more stimuli that are either unconscious or barely at our sensory threshold.

Geralte." "Poslouchám," zarazil se na prahu. "Využij pÃ…â"¢íležitosti a vykoupej se také. Podle smradu jsem schopna ur?it plemeno, vÄ›k a málem i barvu tvého konÄ›.

Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into civilization about the same time: around the third or fourth century before the birth of Christ.

Where was her red line?

He knew that his personal tipping point was drawing nearer; that moment by which, unless he left, he would find it too onerous to go, to readjust to

The Lar was always greeted before crossing the threshold (right foot first), and upon returning home (redire ad Lar em suum). He was invoked before one left on a journey or on campaign

Mythical figures live many lives, die many deaths, and in this they differ from the characters we find in novels, who can never go beyond the single gesture. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo. Only when we become aware of a sudden consistency between incompatibles can we say we have crossed the threshold of myth.

Art, as we have known it, stands on the threshold of the transcendental. It points beyond this world of accidental and disconnected things to another realm, in which human life is endowed with an emotional logic that makes suffering noble and love worthwhile. Nobody who is alert to beauty, therefore, is without the concept of redemption – of a final transcendence of mortal disorder into a 'kingdom of ends.

And, just as with inflation, as described in the last chapter, our observable universe is at the threshold of expanding faster than the speed of light.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there.

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage

Don't ignore your pain. Register, accept, then work with your own body to push through. Naming your pain . . . It's simply a device to help you identify and focus. If calling your pain Melvin makes you feel stupid, don't do it. Refer to it as Pain or don't call it anything at all. But acknowledge your pain threshold. Consider how your injury feels. Then work with your body to do what you need to do.

Questa è la riva del mare. […] Né terra né mare. E' un luogo che non esiste.

They paid the deposit immediately and appeared to be good tenants although they were reluctant to invite him over the threshold once they had moved in. "There is no need for you to come in," he had been told by a burly Russian who answered the door when he had called to see whether all was well. "There is nothing wrong. Everything functions. We are very happy. Goodbye.

what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?

Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man

If you break this door you will find me dead on the threshold. And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged, said Bussy.

Michael pulled himself up straighter, wondering if he should let any of them across his threshold. He'd watched enough vampire movies to know they couldn't hurt you in your own home unless you invited them inside.

Never go in, miss. Never say a prayer at its door. If you are angry, do not seek revenge by the Laughing Maiden stone, or at the threshold of the Tombs. There be those who listen for oaths and vows, and them that takes it quite to heart. What may be said in innocence and ire becomes flesh and blood should it be uttered in such places.