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“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.”

“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.”

Knows World Made Eye Lasts House Grows Black Rooms Silence Steps Tree Sky Huge Evening Lifts Worn Let It Go Ripe Threshold Weariness Worn Out Slender Your Room

Book:The Book of Images

Source: The Book of Images

“Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.”

“The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.”

Ifs Fall Culture Church Information Communication Revolution Conversation Silent Fearless Crossings Threshold

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

Ideas Moments Success Social Magic Behavior Crosses Spread Trends Threshold Tipping Wildfires Tipping Point Social Behavior Magic Moments

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction.”

Ifs Littles Made Used Choices House Strong Doors Weak Appearance Woods Construction Finest Defects Threshold Pillars Timber Sliding Doors

Book:The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

Source: The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

“Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.”

World Heart Two Dream Turns House Security Havens Tomorrow My Heart Comfort Window Companion Serenity Pathways Footsteps Threshold Radiance Portal Rest And Peace

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.”

Ifs Moments Water Morning Sun Doors Fine Standing Blue Depth Edges Shock Pool Pauses Delay Chill June Liquid Threshold Plunge Immersion Wavering Tiles Turquoise Membranes

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored”

Facts Pain Bored Threshold Foyers Pain Threshold

Author:Cassandra Clare

“At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.”

Should Matter Home Seems Together Faces Taken Crosses Series Corners Arguing Multitudes Belts No Point Threshold

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.”

Heart War Hard Earth Faces Dark Feet Gold Sight Army Soldier Ships Queens Iron Threshold One You Love Horsemen

Author:Alison Croggon

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”

Children Moments Forever Magic Crosses Library Librarian Threshold School Library

Author:Barack Obama

“That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”

Has Beens Sometimes Body Happens Language Crosses Boundaries Threshold Strangeness Inside And Outside

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.”

Men Firsts Matter Earth Numbers Race Behinds Rights Blood Century Brother Birth Kings No Matter What Chains Broke Threshold

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.”

Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.”

Men Want Needs May Problem Wisdom Faces Felt Our Lives Risk Despair Mercy Convinced Hopeless Complacency Threshold Verge

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so don’t push me, Olympain. I don’t want so much as a single Atlantean stone overturned. Guard it with your life because the next time I come here, that’s the price I’m going to demand for your incompetence. (ZT) Nice talking to you, ZT. I so look forward to your visits. Next time we’ll do pastries, ‘kay? (Kat)”

Want Looks Littles Girl Next Talking Nice Demand Lows Stones Dry Next Time Threshold Incompetence Pastries Niceness

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“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.”

Knows Night Morning Evening Dawn Twilight Threshold

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away from the garden. Open the door, love, if you will." She obeyed, then froze halfway over the threshold. "What did you call me?" "The first of countless endearments if you'll but stir yourself to hold our current course.”

Ifs Firsts Eye Courses Doors Flower Garden Currents Call Me Halfway Threshold Endearment

Author:Lynn Kurland

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

Should Firsts Sometimes Lasts Loses Taught Should Have Rely Threshold Philip Firsts And Lasts Sometimes Love Rely On Yourself

Author:Nora Roberts

“Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.”

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

Mean Doe Differences Moral Judging Creatures Species Aliens Maturity Judged Threshold

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak”

World Wells Speak Threshold Another World

Author:Franz Kafka

“He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.”

Standing Life Changing Vague Crossings Threshold

Book:The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Forgotten Garden

“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”

Two Self Doors Becoming Threshold Multiplicity

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.”

People Taken Misery Pool Distress Threshold Quota

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

“...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on”

Ifs Knows Long Said I Can Done Stories Pain Sin Silence Doors Strange Goes On Surprise Find Me Threshold Surprise Me

Author:Samuel Beckett

“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.”

Whole Moments Differences Steps Invisible Sincerity Threshold

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.”

Littles Book Self Moments Hands Would Be Simple Objects Mines Return Reader Crosses Profound Response Library Appearance Copies Mum Threshold

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.”

Thinking Looks Mean Said Light Fire Arms Cold Program Lays Evening Flames Kitchen Description Eggs Take Me Fascinated Dozen Noticing Roger Threshold Supper Roaring

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.”

Years Long Home House Boys Wander Coming Home Eighteen Threshold

Author:Darren Shan

“Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators

“...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.”

Sometimes Pain Happened Expectations Raised Suspects Cynical Threshold Resigned Pain Threshold

Book:Hood

Source: Hood

“We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.”

Said Happens Behinds Knowing Doors Laughter Als Threshold Hysterical

Author:Kim Harrison

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

Mean Comfort Insight Threshold

Book:A Universe From Nothing

Source: A Universe From Nothing

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

“The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.”

Men Long Fall Felt Long Time Falling In Love Endure Bounds New Life Threshold Loving Him

Book:Snow

Source: Snow

“Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.”

World Should Certain Dies Courses Wonder Steps New World Threshold Unimaginable

Book:Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles

Source: Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles

“I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.”

Men Want May Mean I Can Hands Care Lying Next House Bits Morning Sun Fire Fronts Bed Wine Glasses Take Care Evening Tea Cooks Beach Be A Man Threshold Wine Glass I May Not Be Sipping

Author:Catherine Sanderson

“To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error”

Men World Mean Real Light Humanity Animal Ignorance Honor Glory Perfection Errors Unity Ignorant Guidance Identical Threshold Felicity Bounty Baha Baha I Light Life

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“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.”

Years Stills Past Sun Letting Go Breaths Caught Midnight Threshold Unlocking Solstice Cusp

Book:Morning in the Burned House

Source: Morning in the Burned House

“It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.”

“Cecy, what are you doing here?" She took a step forward, then paused on the threshold, glancing down at her bare feet. “I could ask of you the same.” “I like to talk to the horses at night. They make good company. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.”

Should Night Asks Company Steps Feet Horse Wander Halls Threshold Steps Forward Good Company Bare Feet Cecily Herondale

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

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

Life Universe Love Is Truth Is Threshold

Book:Toward The Future

Source: Toward The Future

“The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.”

Individual Social Society Movement Evolution Mass Seeking Awakening Threshold

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. 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.”

“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.”

Source: Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart

“If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”

“The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.”

Men Should Steps Five Danger Type Highest Overcoming Independent Tyranny Resistance Threshold Free Man Servitude

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.”

Looks Body Eye Form Lying Energy Loses Rooms Attention Fields Identity Please Essence True Nature Threshold Energy Fields

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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