Quotes About Reaching The Edge

#1. The ceiling is not a good limit;
it prevents you from reaching the sky.
The sky is not a favorable limit;
it hinders you from reaching the stars.
The stars are not an acceptable limit;
they impede you from reaching the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. Sometimes when we're standing at the edge, we don't need anyone to talk us down ... we just need a push.

Buffi Neal

#4. For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

Ahmed H. Zewail

#5. Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#6. As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

John Burnside

#7. Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars

Munia Khan

#8. Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#9. I wished it had turned out differently. I wished I had been better all around. I wished above all that when I believed something, like that I was finally over her, that I knew myself even the slightest bit.

Joshua Ferris

#10. I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#11. Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

Czeslaw Milosz

#12. There was a tattoo, in block letters, low on his pelvis. She sat up on the edge of the bed, her hands reaching behind to grab his ass and pull him closer, so she could read it. "You have got to be shitting me, THE END ZONE, really?"

Sarah Curtis

#13. Upon reaching the preserve, everyone knew that the explanation of this incident was dreadfully imminent. With parents already on edge, the looming task of crafting a story out of thin air was one that was not only sickening, but would place a larger wedge between father and son.

K.N. Smith

#14. Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi