Quotes About Limitation

Free will is not given to us merely as a firework to be shot off into the air. There are some men who seem to think their acts are freer in proportion as they are without purpose, as if a rational purpose imposed some kind of limitation upon us. That is like saying that one is richer if he throws money out the window than if he spends it.

Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

Don't limit the Lord with your own shallow perceptions of Him, or assign Him a level of compassion equal only to yours …

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them. - Tony Robbins Everything

There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick. No Names

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.

Do not desire what you can't acquire.

Examine human handiwork under a microscope, and the closer you look, the more rough edges you find. It's inevitable. Our tools and manual abilities are limited. But look at God's handiwork under a microscope, and the deeper you go, the more organization and detail you find.

When you're in a coffin it's hard to think out of the box. Jack Taylor

Men are salamanders in My terrarium, trying to fathom the events beyond the glass.

Is there anything you can't do, Mr. Cruse?" she said. "I can't sing," I said.

Science is a subordinate category. When science offers itself as the final stage or form of knowing, it is guilty of a false quantity, in that it puts the accent, which belongs elsewhere, upon the penultimate.

supunerea fata de legamantul de a crede numai probabilul, mediocrul, banalul si ceea ce este sarac in semnificatii, de a renunta la tot ce e strain si insemnat si de a reduce la obisnuit tot ce e neobisnuit. Existau doar... orizonturi de o ingustime apasatoare si pustiul nesfarsit al rutinei.

Even the wide sea and the open sky can be claustrophobic if you never get away from them.

We should grow like a tree that likewise does not know its law. We tie ourselves up with intentions, not mindful of the fact that intention is the limitation, yes, the exclusion of life.

Indeed, I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small corner of the world, and my ideas--a subjective confession.

Todo pensamiento, todo sentimiento y toda percepción están compuestos por imágenes psíquicas, y el mismo mundo que nos rodea existe únicamente en la medida en que somos capaces de crear una imagen de él. Nuestro estar presos y limitados por la psique ha provocado en nosotros una impresión tan honda que estamos dispuestos a aceptar que en la psique existen cosas de las que no tenemos conocimiento. Esas cosas son lo que llamamos «lo inconsciente».

Os sentidos do homem limitam a percepção que este tem do mundo à sua volta.

It is well known that Freudian psychoanalysis is limited to the task of making conscious the shadow-side and the evil within us. It simply brings into action the civil war that was latent, and lets it go at that.

Deberíamos crecer como un árbol que tampoco sabe de su ley. Sin embargo, nos atamos a intenciones, sin tener en cuenta el hecho de que la intención es limitación, e incluso exclusión de la vida. Creemos poder aclarar una oscuridad con una intención y con ello pasamos por alto la luz. ¿Cómo podemos atrevernos a querer saber por anticipado de dónde nos vendrá la luz?

There are certain things a man cannot control.

While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.

Con frecuencia caemos víctimas de las influencias negativas de los demás porque aceptamos sus críticas y opiniones negativas sin cuestionamientos, y así permitimos que siembren en nuestra mente falsas creencias que nos limitan física, emocional e intelectualmente.