Quotes About Boundaries

For engineers, designers and other creative problem-solvers, a formal definition of the constraints within which they must work is essential to channel energies and expand creativity.

For some reason, I kept trying to see how much pubic hair he had. It was all matted and kind of orange, like something you use to scrub soap scum. When he caught me looking, he told me that the landlord on the show – Mr. Furley or whatever his name was – didn't try hard enough. "That guy doesn't try hard enough, Steve," he said. I felt weirdly ashamed when he said that. So much so that I went into his room and urinated on his bed.

What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage-à-trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you?

It's important to make a distinction between allowing feelings and allowing actions," I replied. "We permit children to express all their feelings. We don't permit them to hurt each other. Our job is to show them how to express their anger without doing damage.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH.

Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn't be allowed to joke about, that there are words that can't be said no matter the context, you're selling out the very idea of comedy.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.

Dragostea pare delimitat? de dou? disolu?ii - via?a sub prea multe priviri ?i via?a sub prea pu?ine.

The Key to a healthy no is to remember the yes that the no is making space for.

Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

The boundary between the known and the unknown constantly shifts. The other side is the "mysterious." That other side intrigues us, it stimulates us, it provokes us, it haunts us. And it produces new science, and new art.

You just can't go around putting your hand through people's faces. It's rude for one thing. Deeply unsettling for another.

Schopenhauer wrote, 'Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

There is at the heart of Romanticism an urge to withdraw into oneself in order to then transcend the boundaries of that self and connect with nature and the larger order.

We mistake the horizon we see for the parameters of the world.

One has to Journey within the boundaries of paradise fading into a world of unconsciousness only if you're thirsting to inherit this empirical knowledge not too greater and not too lesser, -MillYentei

That's unnatural.' 'Some would call it a miracle. Careful of the word unnatural. It reeks of arrogance. You are assuming you know the boundaries of nature. You don't. There is more to life than your eyes can see. More than you can ever imagine. Nature comes from the mind of God. It is infinite. The finite human mind can never fathom it in totality.

Do you see me as hero, villain or victim? If yes, then you are not doing darshan. If you can empathize with the fears that make people heroes, villains and victims, then you are doing darshan. For then you look beyond the boundaries that separate you from the rest.