Quotes: Zadie Smith

"Don't let your mind set limits that aren't really there." 

–– Zadie Smith (b. 1975), English writer

Quotes: Rainer Maria Rilke

"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, 

then walks with us silently out of the night. 

These are the words we dimly hear: 

You, sent out, beyond your recall,

go to the limits of your longing. 

Embody me. 

Flare up like flame 

and make big shadows that I can move in. 

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. 

Just keep going. No feeling is final. 

Don't let yourself lose me. 

Nearby is the country they call life. 

You will know it by its seriousness. 

Give me your hand."

Book of Hours I 59

–– Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist 

via: Sketchbook A, 2015, p. 23

Quotes: Rem Koolhaas

"Without firm limits there is no play." 

–– Rem Koolhaas (b. 1944), Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, professor 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 26

Quotes: Pythagoras

"Limit gives form to the limitless." 

–– Pythagoras (c.570 bce –– c. 500-490 bce), Ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and founder of Pythagoreanism 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 17