Threshold Quotes

214 quotes by 193 authors

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a… — Jane Hirshfield
Iâ€™m going to check the worldâ€™s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldnâ€™t even type? The Web is… — Nalo Hopkinson
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind. — Khalil Gibran
Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden. — Maria Tatar
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they… — Cordell Hull
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on… — W. Eugene Smith
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold… — Mark Nepo
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was… — M. John Harrison
There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit,… — Jean Houston
I have a really low boredom threshold. — Nick Hornby
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss. — B.K.S. Iyengar
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important.… — Helen Fisher
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will… — Charles Holland Duell
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a… — Sheila Kitzinger
I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize… — Flo Hyman
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. — Havelock Ellis
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and… — Ezra Pound
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are… — Benjamin Franklin
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a… — Hermann Hesse
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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