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Quotes About Boundaries

BEQUEST. You left me, sweet, two legacies, — A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
~ Emily Dickinson
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~ Emily Dickinson
Don't you know that No is the wildest word we consign to Language?
~ Emily Dickinson
As there are apartments in our own minds that we never enter without apology we should respect the seals of others.
~ Emily Dickinson
You left me, sweet, two legacies,— A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had he the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. —Emily Dickinson
~ Emily Dickinson
You left me, sweet, two legacies, A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
~ Emily Dickinsonck
Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.
~ Emily Giffin
People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
~ Emma Donoghue
In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.
~ Emma Donoghue
Remember," she says on the way to the white car, "we don't hug strangers. Even nice ones." "Why not?" "We just don't, we save our hugs for people we love." "I love that boy Walker." "Jack, you never saw him before in your life.
~ Emma Donoghue
S]he takes a killer. Sometimes she takes two, never more than two, because some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.
~ Emma Donoghue
What this good man had sworn to protect me from was not the same as what I feared. I trusted that he would never let anything hurt me, but he would never let anything touch me either.
~ Emma Donoghue
The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.
~ Emma Donoghue
We all live in an unwalled city, that was it. I saw lines scored across the map of Ireland; carved all over the globe. Train tracks, roads, shipping channels, a web of human traffic that connected all nations into one great suffering body.
~ Emma Donoghue
We all live in darkness, kept apart from each other by walls easily crossed but full of fake doors . . . --from the poem Epilogue (David Unger translation)
~ Enrique Lihn
Hãy v?t ngay Ä'i cái gì không ph?i c?a ta. Hãy thanh l?c các ý ki?n c?a b?n ?? cái gì không thuá»™c v? b?n s? không bám l?y b?n, ??ng có dính vào Ä'ó và cÅ©ng ??ng Ä'au kh? khi ng??i ta tước b? c?a b?n cái th? không thuá»™c v? b?n Ä'ó.
~ Epictete
Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.
~ Epictetus
distinguish between your own and not your own, the things which are in your power and not in your power
~ Epictetus
You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.
~ Eric Allenbaugh
I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
And a thought occurred to me: the walls of the penitentiary guarding this pacifist were taller and more impenetrable than any of the fences at Y-12.
~ Eric Schlosser
We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.
~ Erica Jong
Dénombrer l'infini, n'est-ce pas le refuser?
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt