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Threshold Quotes

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 of suffering is crossed.

Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.161, Conari Press

The threshold is the place of expectation.

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

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

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

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.324, Cengage Learning EMEA

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

"'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Maria Tatar (2004). “Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives”, p.1, Princeton University Press