Why does man grow spiritually through pain and not through joys and rest? Simply because joy and comfort lead man to be satisfied with the present world. Grief and tribulations lead us to search for a deeper joy, beyond the limits of this life. Seraphim Rose
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. George Henry Lewes
Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future. Meher Baba
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great. Thomas Gray
My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it. Iain Banks
By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him. James Joyce