Threshold Quotes
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
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
Khalil Gibran, “Teaching XVIII”
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
Maria Tatar (2004). “Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives”, p.1, Princeton University Press
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.70, Simon and Schuster