Quotes About Limitation

And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

That's why you piss me off, Clark. Because I see all this talent, all this...' He shrugged. 'This energy and brightness and-' 'Potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

The only thing holding me back was myself.

Kau membatasi dirimu dari segala macam pengalaman karena kau meyakini bahwa kau 'bukan orang semacam itu'. - Jojo Moyes : Me Before You hlm.272

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

She raised her hands to wipe her face - and discovered she could not do so. Bonds bit her wrists. Chains jangled. Her arms were painfully constrained. Clearly another great day was about to begin.

Some things a man simply cannot do.

A la larga, la realidad resulta inextinguible, inalcanzable. Se puede saber más y más sobre ella, pero nunca todo.

Iban a comerse el mundo y ahora se limitan a comentarlo, si es que lo comentan, circunscritos como están a los límites de su limitada capacidad de pensar.

La vida está tremendamente por debajo de sí misma. No existe, además, ni la menor posibilidad de alcanzar la plenitud.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

além disso, lhes ensinassem a limitar seus desejos, nunca teríamos nenhuma falha a encontrar com tais pessoas, pois elas seriam então preenchidas com prazeres que transbordariam por todos os lados e estariam livres de toda dor,

Nature's wealth is limited and easy to acquire; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

Una necesidad es un vaso para ser llenado, mientras que escasez es un estado mental, una limitación en la conciencia.

Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted

A man couldn't jump higher than himself, she pointed out to me. And he couldn't help it if he was a "zoodnik"; one so annoying, he made you itch.

If you overdo it, there are consequences. What kind of consequences? Strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms... How do you know when you have overdone it? When you have a stroke, brain hemorrhage or an aneurysm.

If you overdo it there are consequences,' said Nightingale. I didn't like the sound of that at all. 'What kind of consequences?' 'Strokes, brain haemorrhages, aneurysms …' 'How do you know when you've overdone it?' 'When you have a stroke, a brain haemorrhage or an aneurysm,

But no escape is possible. Capital shrinks space, compresses time.

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.