Quotes About Limitation

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

I've spent all day in bed. Having the old obsessions, the feeling that nothing is possible for me.

Can you imagine founding a cuisine on blueberries? Everyone would be so sick of them within a week, they'd starve to death. The blueberry has no versatility. The country with a cuisine based on the blueberry would be a country of lunatics, turned mad by the unwavering sameness of their daily meals.

Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Claudite jam rivos, pueri: Sat prata biberunt.

The Unexplorer" There was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once—she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to the milk-man's door. (That's why I have not traveled more.)

I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Nothing in excess.