Threshold Quotes

• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

  Joseph Campbell

  Emotional, Hands, Horizon

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.43, New World Library

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• The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Love Is, Truth Is

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1975). “Toward The Future”, Mariner Books

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• We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hope, Dawn, Midnight

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• If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Challenges, World, Steps

  Mariel Hemingway, Bobby Williams (2013). “Running with Nature: Stepping Into the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.105, BookBaby

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• There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Pain, Knowledge

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Luck, Delightful, Pauses

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• The threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expectations

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1855). “Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship: A novel from the German. Transl. by R. Dillon Boylan. Complete in 1 vol”, p.464

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• Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Eye, Sky, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.5, North Point Press

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• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Baptism, President, Use

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• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

  Margaret Atwood

  Letting Go, Past, Years

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Doors, Waiting

  Song: Dweller on the Threshold, Album: Beautiful Vision

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• And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.

  Joseph Conrad

  Differences, Steps, Moments

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.112, eKitap Projesi

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• 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 profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Doors, Dragons

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, Doors, Something New

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• When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

  Max Lucado

  Desire, Favors, Crosses

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from May 21, 2012

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• To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.

  Amy Wright

  Strong, Pain, Life And Love

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• We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.

  Jean Houston

  Years, Maps, Requirements

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Twilight, Night

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